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America was built by people who came here to believe in something. America was built by people who came here for the right to believe in nothing. And two upcoming PBS documentaries are aptly paired not simply because each comes from one of the documentarian brothers Ken and Ric Burns (The Civil War), but also because both illustrate this paradox. Ken Burns' Not for Ourselves Alone (Nov. 7-8, 8 p.m. E.T.), the story of women suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, shows we would not be what we are without people fervently, sometimes blindly proselytizing--religiously...
This approach is even more egregious in New York, which renders a hard-core town as easy listening. Besides the trademark pans of photographs and prints, Ric Burns uses copious aerial shots of the city, glimmering, filled with butterscotchy light--but lifeless. Through seemingly Vaselined lenses, however, a picture emerges from both these works of the long, fruitful tension between evangelical idealism and secular mercantilism. Ken and Ric Burns have managed to sing America. If only they wouldn't sing it to sleep...
...Tall, dark and sexy, he can take liberties with me any time. ...A sort of Ric Flair look...
...Richman ruefully examines his youthful anger ("I didn't like this and I didn't like that/I was such a little brat"), but the song is musically unimpressive. The titular "I'm So Confused" makes better use of the irritating synthesizers than most other songs on the album. Producer Ric Ocasek has stuck the distracting synths in everywhere, apparently longing for his days in the Cars with ex-Modern Lovers drummer Jerry Harrison. "Love Me Like I Love" is similar to Richman's older work in its direct expression of loneliness and isolation, but it looks backwards to childhood, where...
However, on the Harvard men's hockey team, the locker room aggression we might expect from a U.S.-Canadian rivalry has been sedate, like Ric Flair's reaction to the Sharpshooter (the finishing move of Bret "The Hitman" Hart...