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...Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to a recently deceased incumbent: "Voters preferred the dead guy." He shows footage of Bush clowning at his desk in March 2003, moments before giving the televised address that announced the invasion of Iraq. He shows a newsclip of Bush on a golf course saying sternly, "We must stop the terror," then reverting to country-club form by adding cheerfully, "Now watch this drive." There's a shot from a few years back of Moore elbowing his way toward then-Governor Bush, who recognizes him and says, "Behave...
...they--and the audience's sensibilities--ignore significant aspects of the issues at hand. For all Shapiro's revelations on the underlying sexual message of commercial television, he exploits women for laughs just the way advertisers exploit women for sales. It is likely that the audience, laughing at a newsclip of a press conference at which the President fondles Shapiro, in drag, as India's woman prime minister, felt subconsciously self-satisfied at having not been offended by Groove Tube 2's breach of conventional taste. It is not likely they would have laughed or felt so entirely sure...
...cliche. Even those opposed to the war no longer go back to the screaming bloody concrete facts of the conflict. How can we emotionally respond to a seemingly endless series of burned villages, burned babies, mass slayings of civilians? We become spiritually calloused, deadened, unable to face another newsclip of a dying soldier squirming in the mud he has reddened with his blood and intestines, or of ten thousand bodies floating down the Mekong River to the sea. The seven men and two women at Catonsville could not forget...
...option in most of these cases is to enter into the fun-or leave it alone. But several of the objects have been so intricately put together that they offer the viewers some real variants to work with. Oyvind Fahlstrom sets up panels dotted with comic-strip and newsclip images mounted on magnetized blocks; these can be moved around at will. The result, Fahlstrom suggests, is to produce the "elusive-mysterious quality of a never-fixed work of art." Gerald Oster's Instant Self-Skiagraphy permits the viewer-participant to make shadow pictures with his hand against a panel...
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