Word: eurekas
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...feel about living in a microprocessed age. On Kid A, another Radiohead emerges: if the last album was about technology using up humans, the new one is about humans using technology. Kid A relies heavily on samples and synthesizers. The sound is experimental, but the songs all have a Eureka! quality about them: they seem unthinkable, but once thought, seem only natural...
...with no real evidence, only second- and third-hand eyebrow-waggling and inference-projecting. You get the picture when you see that Summers gives a psychologist's profile of your typical wife-beater ("rigid, impersonal, and inadequate to deal with stress," "values that respect rigid sexual stereotypes") and concludes - eureka! - "It is fair to say that Nixon conformed to this profile to one degree or another." Summers shakes his fist at a dead man and demands, "Have you stopped beating your wife...
Another deftly entertaining American entry, the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", was ignored, as were some decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury...
NEAREST MAJOR MEDICAL CENTER: 140-bed St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, six miles away, has comprehensive cancer and cardiac treatment...
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