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Hauser said animals have “laser beam” intelligence, while human intelligence is better characterized as “floodlight...
...Flowers. A choir of children cuts in and occasionally appears in a room previously occupied only by Flowers, making us wonder whether he’s hallucinating or lost in an old memory. Flowers ends up searching for something in the house’s dark hallways with a floodlight, and finally seems to see Lou Reed, who has been in front of him all along. Here the music changes and the formerly driving bassline drops out. Flowers finally addresses Lou Reed directly and calmly sings his way to the end of this bizarre and captivating trip. Like the song...
...grotto in his wife's bath. For all her overflowing manner, Murray was what the French call an intimiste, a painter, like Bonnard or Vuillard or even Matisse, who takes the modest precincts of domestic life as a perfectly good place to make art. Then, if they can, they floodlight the room with whatever it is we mean by genius. This is what Murray did. And she did it again and again...
...another celebrated case, a burglar supposedly fell through the skylight of a school, sued and was awarded $260,000, plus $1,500 a month. The full story, it seems, is that a 19-year-old man and three friends tried to take a floodlight off the roof of a California high school as a lark; he fell through the skylight and suffered loss of the use of all four limbs, plus severe brain damage. The skylight had been painted the same color as the roof and was indistinguishable at night; the school district knew that it was dangerous because someone...
...didn’t want to piss anyone off,” according to Kim, and so they took the flag down after receiving the sternly worded e-mail. But a few days later, the flag went back up in its proper direction, illuminated at night with an outdoor floodlight. Although the flag had to come down a second time for spring break, Kim says they plan on putting it back up soon...