Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few days, members of the senior class received a solicitation letter from the Gift's co-chairs. In this document, they were told that the Senior Gift is "an integral part of Harvard's operating budget...
...field inquiries about Whitewater, angrily implies that TIME wants to write "a story that the Clintons are tax cheats." (Wrong: any underpayment could have been the result of excessively casual bookkeeping or following bad advice.) Lindsey also brandishes a folder containing copies of canceled checks that he says document all the Clintons' tax deductions related to Whitewater, which he insists are legitimate. But he refuses to make any public, complaining that the press would only report such information wrongly. The White House, he says, will show Whitewater documents only to Fiske or his probers...
...relying on his own life for inspiration, McElwee creates a modern version of material which used to be documented only in journals. His "visual essays," as he calls them, capture his surroundings with poignancy and humor, spiced with metaphysical ramblings. "Time Indefinite" continues the story of "Sherman's March," McElwee's 1986 film, which was originally intended to document the path General William Tecumseh Sherman took through the South in the Civil War. Instead McElwee wound up pursuing other interests, namely women...
...That kind of objectivity, we all realize in this post-modern era, is an impossibility. You can't be objective." He cites Errol Morris, the make of "A Thin Blue Line" and "A Brief History of Time," as the most "noticeble" explorer of this question. Both of these films document men's lives: one is the story of someone wrongly accused, the other that of the scientific genius, Steven Hawkins. Both employ hindsight to reconstruct events...
...television and film." He also looks forward to more of the films that are beginning to flood from the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe. While making the 1992 film on the Berlin Wall in collaboration with his wife, McElwee had the opportunity to see the reality these filmmakers document. "There's a strong documentary tradition in Eastern Europe that informs the fiction film making....A lot of it is hand-held work....They look to reality, in a way, for the groundwork....for their films, more so than American film makers...