Word: dubya
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH TIME'S choice of Bush. Dubya's footprints have been large; it is a pity they have mostly been going backward. The President is no revolutionary but a reactionary pushing against the progressive tide. Americans feel poorer, less safe and less free than four years ago. Despite a narrow election victory in threatening times, he tells himself he has a mandate to shake things up. Look out, America. Look out, world...
...Together, the year?s fistful of contentious new political films formed a burgeoning non-fiction genre: the agit-doc. They ranged from specifically anti-Dubya tracts like ?Bush?s Brain? (about Presidential Advisor Karl Rove) and ?Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack...
...approach was part ?Democracy Now? (Amy Goodman?s low-rent, high-IQ newscast on radio and TV), part ?The Daily Show,? which since 9/11 has become the Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue an impertinent and fatal Middle East adventure...
...forward with work of indisputable power. In fact, film and video art feature in every submission short-listed for this year's Turner Prize, the British art world's most prestigious award. Jeremy Deller was presented the prize on Dec. 6 for his film Memory Bucket, a profile of Dubya's Texas (the works are on exhibit at Tate Britain in London until Dec. 23). And a show at Tate Modern on London's South Bank, "Time Zones: Recent Film and Video" (through Jan. 2.), draws from the best international artists, all exploring the concept of time. In Untitled (Bangkok...
...miscalculated?badly. South Korea's Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...