Word: spokenly
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...students that I’ve spoken to—some from New York who are of Jewish background—I haven’t spoken to anyone who felt personally intimidated,” he says...
...vocal breakdown à la Born Against’s “I am an Idiot.” This trend crops up again, but reversed, in track three—starting out with the intense cathartic vocals and then slowing down to a poppy, tongue-in-cheek spoken word number that suggests a disempowerment far removed from the agency implied by the previous spirited rocking-out: “I only want to be attractive ‘coz I want to attract you/and I wish I were thin/goddamn this body, so fat and crude/and I wish...
...your ass on the line like you used to, motherfucker.” Heard at a concert, these words might suggest a pissed-off crowd or a burgeoning riot. It’s quite a different matter, however, when these words are spoken by the musician to himself, as Lou Barlow proved when he wittily muttered them at the Middle East Upstairs last Wednesday. In the context of that intimate setting, on one of the first dates of his new tour, the words shed an old light on the new Barlow...
...documentary filmmaking: objectivity. So, in the post-viewing Q&A session, I’ve just asked her how she managed to maintain objectivity during such painful periods in her subjects’ lives, and whether or not she intervened at all. Immediately after I’ve spoken, I realize that my question could present her with a dangerous challenge...
Without missing a beat, the modest, soft-spoken Mallozzi openly admits to making an attempt to influence at least one major part of the film. Near the film’s end, one of the teens, Samnang, is accepted to his top-choice school, Brown University. However, due to a mix-up with his financial aid forms, he is unable to afford tuition, and has to decline the acceptance. At the Q&A, Mallozzi has no qualms about telling the audience members that she tried to raise money for the boy’s tuition...