Word: procession
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Exit Through the Gift Shop” is, much like its maker, both exhilarating and infuriating. It is brilliant, eccentric, and wild. The viewer gets precious glimpses into the creative process of Banksy himself as he hurriedly fixes, by flashlight, one of his infamous mouse stencils on a grimy Los Angeles street. But it is also highly provocative, as Banksy seizes this opportunity to critique our own defacement of this urban art form...
...remarkable consistency over a decade of music-making that he can do ambient electronica. But somehow, when those two aspects merge in songs like “Bowls” and “Leave House,” they lose much of what makes them compelling in the process. Less than the sum of its parts, the record’s middle section decelerates and de-energizes the music, and the result is little more than tedious...
...efforts to change social norms should be emphasized above ineffective structural reforms that paper over persisting problems. India has had legal structures meant to fight corruption since the country’s inception, but in the words of Kennedy School professor Lant Pritchett, “the de jure process no longer has any real claim on the behavior of the agents of the state, who are following a different de facto set of procedures” that have basically institutionalized corruption. Even new elected officials or new laws will not change the expectation that a bribe needs...
This year, 120 sophomores applied, with eight finalists making it through to interviews. The application process is fairly light, as candidates need only to fill out a uniform application, submit a sample paper and provide an academic reference from a professor...
...especially in those conditions that were a bit of a shock to the system,” captain Martin Eiermann said. “We are trying to keep these races as one step towards the coming races and the championships. It’s all part of a process. And, [this race] was sort of one box that we can check off on a list of what we have to do from now into the coming weeks as part of the larger context...