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...windows into strange craft and have this going on all over the country.' But after hearing dozens of such stories, Mack concluded that the abductions were real. Moreover, he discerned a motive behind them: THE ABDUCTORS, IT SEEMS, WERE IMPLANTING MIND-TO-MIND MESSAGES URGING BETTER CARE OF THE PLANET ... Mack's view of the UFO phenomenon reflects a larger philosophical stance that rejects 'rational' scientific explanations and embraces a hazier New Age reality. 'I don't know why there's such a zeal to find a conventional physical explanation,' he says. 'I don't know why people have such...
Through it all the seasons cycle, the planet spins, and the world goes round. It blends the local with the global. “Sometimes you lose every nickel you had, but the world goes ‘round.” A luminescent orange globe is a fixture in the background, as is pianist Ben E. Green ’06, whose keyboard stands directly behind the glowing sphere. The two enjoy a mutually reinforcing relationship. The World Goes ’Round is, therefore, a successful attempt to localize all the world to the musical stage...
...title track and opening number (brilliantly executed by Cassis) expresses nature’s disregard for human travail, with lyrics like “Somebody loses and somebody wins/ And one day it’s kicks, then it’s kicks in the shins/ But the planet spins, and the world goes ‘round.” Variations on this theme recur toward the end of the production, creating a unified, circular whole...
...poetic language—especially near the middle of the film when Lucas exposes the curious dialectics of rough/coarse and soft/smooth. Framed within the grand love story of the film, young Anakin Skywalker compares Natalie Portman’s skin to the harsh sand of his home planet Tattooine. Lucas puts the ball in the audience’s court as he asks: What is the nature of smoothness? Roughness...
...vocals, often coming across as either weak or too ornamental given the song material, and at times (“Where is My Mind?”) just plain silly. Particularly excessive is the disc’s final, whopping, fifteen-minute version of “Planet of Sound,” which expands the whirlwind-punch of the two-minute original into a lumbering hurricane (the phrase “fucking around” is repeated over forty-two times). With a few debatable moments, none of these songs is really better than the original version, and though...