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...less in common with modern gore movies than with certain avant-garde films of the late '60s, like Michael Snow's Wavelength - a murder mystery in the form of a single, slow, 45-min. zoom shot through a room - and Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame...
...Yale Daily News selected their new guard of editors over the weekend. The new editor-in-chief may or may not get a better internship gig than his predecessor, who was forced into a back room at Vanity Fair to watch eight hours of cable news straight for four consecutive days in August...
...minutes later, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the President to wake him up with the news, which had been sent around internally to White House staff in an email from Situation Room Staff at about 5 a.m. that read: "Item of Interest: President Obama Wins Nobel Prize." (See pictures of President Obama's first eight months of diplomacy...
White House staff regularly get "item of interest" e-mails from the Situation Room staff. So that is how most staffers were notified this morning - if they were awake. Shortly after 5 a.m., the Situation Room sent out an internal e-mail with the subject line: "Item of Interest: President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize." Phones quickly started ringing after that, including a call from Gibbs to wake up Obama just before 6 a.m. Five hours later, the President strode into the Rose Garden as the globe's newest Nobel laureate...
...proliferation with action to stop it; because he reminded Americans, with John Donne, that no man is an island and that poverty, despair and hunger anywhere diminish and indeed threaten those who are not poor, not hopeless and not hungry. Humility is fine, in the quiet of Obama's room, with his family, in private. But not in his public life - the life that he shares with all of us; the one to which we convey, for his allotted span as the most important political figure in the world, our aspirations for the future...