Word: tracee
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...equality. However, the role of a royal family is to represent its country's citizens and aspirations. But the U.S. does not have a single continuous history and culture that a royal family can claim to represent. For instance, as a nation of immigrants, most Americans today cannot trace their ancestry in the U.S. back to the colonial period. In today's U.S., the Washington royal house would probably be attacked for being too white and too eastern. The fact that the royal family could not represent the multitude of different ethnic groups living in the U.S. would...
Alas, the 75-minute work contains no trace whatsoever of the indelible tunes and crisp discipline that marked McCartney's collaborations with John Lennon. But then McCartney's post-Abbey Road pop output has also been notable mainly for its vacuity. The cash flow produced by such perennials as Yesterday (recorded to date by more than 2,200 artists) ensures that Sir Paul's great-grandchildren will never wonder where their next BMW is coming from, but it has also relieved him of the need to make new music vital enough to seize and hold the attention of contemporary listeners...
...should never expect any existing situation--whether gloomy or glittery--to last indefinitely, or even for very long. This seems self-evident. But our collective memory is often short-lived, and we have to keep reminding ourselves that today's economic euphoria tends to anesthetize any trace of yesterday's lugubriousness. Also, vice verse. Certain kinds of institutions, however--and especially universities--cannot exist or thrive if they allow themselves to ride too closely the ups and downs of every minor or major boom or bust...
Smart, young urbanite Marcy (Janeane Garofalo) works for a Boston senator up for reelection. Having troubles in his campaign, the JFK wannabe assigns young Marcy to go back to the "old country"--Ireland--and trace his hereditary roots. Young Marcy arrives in a small, unheard of Irish town (where men have singing competitions and buses are still gender-segregated) at the peak of a quaint annual ritual: The Match-making Festival. Being single, Marcy is a marked woman; a lamb laid out to the wolves...
...elders for the most part are not simply homage or imitation. The movement of the camera, which he uses throughout, suits his purpose well. Since his film, like many Altman films, is an ensemble piece, the camera wanders both to capture the wildness of the surroundings and to trace the lives of his many characters...