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...which uses giant video screens, satellite technology and automobiles swinging from cranes to evoke the surrealist, fast-forward distortion of the digitalized global village. In the title track, garbled voices, piano and a pulsing bass emerge from a haze of static like a radio receiver tuning in to a distant signal...
...painting like The Mirror, 1966. It is his homage to Velazquez's Las Meninas. A young girl sits with her back to a large mirror, propped up behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition...
...BOTTOM LINE: This comedy of long-distance love is too long and too distant...
...this country, at this great university, saving the best means something very particular. It means saving your unprecedented historical achievement in ethnic coexistence. It is no accident that when boat people are found floating in some distant sea, their preferred destination is invariably North America. Not just because of its prosperity or democracy. But because of its ethnic harmony. We have figured out how to live together without raging civil strife...
During the campaign, Woo made much of Riordan's former membership in a restricted Los Angeles country club, his slashing of jobs at companies he downsized, and three alcohol-related arrests in his distant past. Riordan defenders, however, point to his proved compassion. "The millions of dollars he's contributed to schools and the poor over the years could not have been a calculation," admitted state senator Art Torres, a Woo ally. "Dick Riordan has heart." Los Angeles has to hope it's a big one. The fractured city, whose citizens still grimace at the recollection of that videotaped beating...