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...first, the faint buzzing blends in with the crisp notes and trills of Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Prelude in C Minor." Perhaps the tape is a bad copy, or the stereo is acting up again. Then the distracting noise grows louder, more insistent, until it can no longer be dismissed as a mechanical error. In fact, it is Gould singing along with his own performance as he always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination...
...down to size. He may have held the record for yards rushing, but he also holds it for celebrity afterlife. Only in the deflated coin of the realm would Simpson have been considered a hero. He was an athlete who turned a brilliant career running a football into a minor one flacking rental cars, sportscasting and acting. Much is made of the amiability with which he performed these duties, but accommodating fans is how a faded athlete convinces a company like Hertz to keep paying him top dollar for pushing midsize cars with unlimited mileage...
...other hand, photojournalism has never been able to claim the transparent neutrality attributed to it. Photographers choose angles and editors choose pictures to make points, after all (should President Clinton be smiling this week, or frowning?). And every major news outlet routinely crops and retouches photos to eliminate minor, extraneous elements, so long as the essential meaning of the picture is left intact. Our critics felt that Matt Mahurin's work changed the picture fundamentally; I felt it lifted a common police mug shot to the level of art, with no sacrifice to truth. Reasonable people may disagree about that...
This September's first-year orientation week will feature several minor changes, including the elimination of last year's immensely unpopular scavenger hunt...
...Japanese publicly vowed to go along with any sanctions decided by the U.N. Privately, though, Tokyo is suggesting that the process be drawn out, ! beginning with another warning to Pyongyang, followed by minor sanctions. Only then would Japan move to a full embargo, including a halt to the hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances that North Koreans in Japan send home each year...