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...sounds, the laughs of her roommates, shots of her grandmother smoking cigarettes and even pieces of home videos shot by her father of Buckingham and her sister when they were much younger. If Buckingham thought linearly, she would lose what makes her a tremendously talented student of video. Somehow, playing with digital video tools, Buckingham cuts and pastes, extends and distorts time. She retells stories the way she understands them, with images of the past and present rendered with equal importance...
...politician was the part of him we liked least during the campaign - the changes of clothes and changes of heart, the pandering and the polling and the maneuvering. And the blood lust, by which George W. Bush's many failings somehow began to look like Al Gore's fault...
...somehow, the Santa myth seemed of a different order. Perhaps because he was somehow enmeshed in the solemn and serious Christmas holiday, or perhaps because Santa was portrayed as a puppet-master, controlling all-important material disbursement through an ambiguous moral system predicated on Orwellian observational techniques, Santa was someone who it was difficult to deny...
...members of Wu-Tang are street-corner scientists, experimenting, theorizing, pushing the limits of what's possible in hip-hop. The phrase experimental music usually suggests that the work in question is somehow hard to enjoy and impossible to understand. Wu-Tang's lyrics and intentions can be perversely oblique, but their music manages to be experimental and populist at the same time. Wu-Tang's songs have the loose but intricate feel of late-night jazz jams--they're artfully crafted but emotionally...
...about half a country, ending this with five strokes of the gavel might also feel like a fix. And somehow, for this unprecedented, uncharted and stubbornly interminable affair, it just doesn't seem crazy enough to work...