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...Warmerdam has established herself as a master of repetition. Yet instead of documenting existing patterns of the visual world, she creates repetition from things that don't repeat, using film loops to transform isolated events into patterns of great expression and beauty...
History does repeat itself: once again, the Anti-Federalists are dictating American legislative policy. From within their hallowed chambers, the Rehnquist Court is pushing the doctrine of states' rights with the unabashed fervor of Thomas Jefferson and his Democrat-Republican cronies of two hundred years ago. Indeed, the question has become what exactly the Court may be willing to sacrifice in order to make its point...
With a physical style remnant of the '80s Detroit squads, the Knicks set out to dispatch the defending champion Bulls after beating the Pistons in five games in the first round. The Bulls had gone 67-15 in the regular season and were the prohibitive favorites to repeat as champs in the postseason. The Knicks, refusing to let themselves roll over and give up, stretched Chicago to only one of two seventh games it would play in its six championship years under the guidance of Patrick Ewing, John Starks, and Anthony Mason...
During one portion of the speech I described a computer simulation of undergraduate life at Harvard. "When technology was still primitive, this was a simple algorithm that made the computer repeat 'Habermas,' until you cried," I said. I wrote about my classes as if they were only b.s.-tossing sessions and made my classmates out to be a bunch of competitive smooth-talkers never satisfied with their own success. There were also a couple of Britney Spears jokes, but not enough to salvage the speech...
...point, the lead singer of the nine-piece band dared the audience to try to repeat after him the lyrics of a famous Duke Ellington tune...