Word: noteless
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...have a President who can speak for an hour without notes?" former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a presidential candidate turned Clinton supporter, told the next crowd, assembled in Red Oak despite biblical rains. It was a classic reaction to a Clinton performance. To be sure, other candidates can go noteless for an hour or more--some, like Joe Biden, famously so--but Clinton's flagrant competence is her dominant personality trait. And, sad to say, it may have very little to do with whether she wins the Democratic nomination...
...belong? Celebration Park opens with a giant neon sculpture saying, "I do not own Tate Modern or the Death Star." Other neon signs, all beginning with the words "I do not own," follow, disavowing possession of such cultural icons as Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and John Cage's noteless musical composition 4'33", both of which, like the Death Star, figure in Huyghe's work. By calling these glowing white signs Disclaimers, the artist is saying that, in spite of copyright rules, no one really owns these works. They are part of our shared culture, subject to limitless reinterpretation...
...long duet, long enough to allow the drummers to go through many changes, but it doesn't drag; it's not an interlude in a song, but an important part of it, a part that has no notes, only beats. The noteless music gets faster, more and more abstract, more and more supported by the rhythm in the listeners' minds that is added to the sounds coming in through their ears, until the music peaks, and with a nod to the rest of the band from both drummers, the drums roll out a lead-in, and the Dead play together...
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