Word: mantras
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...show up in a WB show near you, is Madonna's quite gracious rendition of Don McLean's "American Pie." Everett, in typical gay-best-friend fashion, supports Madonna on backup vocals, a quite painful realization but no detriment to the song. Echoes of Madonna's most recent techno mantra style is quite clear, and William Orbit's synthesizer gets more than its fair share of song time, behind Madonna's vocals. Actually, the techno beat added to McLean's rather folksy song has, shall we say, a dollop more henna than is quite necessary, but it will make...
McCain's image as a revolutionary rests, instead, on the word he repeats like a mantra: reform. For the most part, his reforms are unspecified or constantly evolving--he has sponsored several different versions of campaign-finance reform, for example--but to the extent he has a message, this is it: "Government has been taken from us. Let's go take it back...
...side, the same old mantra of taxes, taxes, taxes seems to be the leading song choice. This would seem odd now, given the obscene prosperity that has been generated over the past half decade. Not that taxes don't make for great political fodder. It is just that at a time when people are doing well and America is preeminent in the world both economically and militarily, a government-bashing tax cut doesn't seem like the most sellable line. Equally important, to be sure, is the important issue of health care. Democrats are right to seek out the high...
...almost Monty Pythonesque debates on both sides: Republican candidates appeared to be debating over how much they hate abortion; Democrats quibbled over who was more pro-choice and who got there first. Oh, for the days when a candidate could chant "It's the economy, stupid" as a mantra...
...antique hand-cranked Pathe camera. The narrator's chronicle of "strange things told" includes this pseudo-historical footage, and it, like the '70s-colored soundtrack, serves to heighten the sense of presence and periodicity in the film and to underscore the weight the past bears on the present. The mantra that "we may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us" certainly resonates with this idea, and we hear it muttered more than once...