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...libertarian, problem-solving sort. The Democrats, in a division embodied in Clinton himself, are split between old-line, Big Government sorts and a faction that sees the limits of state intervention. A stable middle has yet to be established. Neither party has the leaders or the programs to transcend the need to satisfy the fire breathers on the edges. The electorate, meanwhile, veers back and forth trying to reach an equilibrium. Democrats are down, then up. Republicans out, then in. The search is on in earnest for a party and a program and a leader that are not captive...
...much of a travesty as categorizing the engrossing documentary "Paris Is Burning" with the much more shallow "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." More than a basketball movie, "Hoop Dreams" asks questions about social conditions that require our immediate attention. By exploring one subject so intensively, the film manages to transcend itself and delves into issues ranging from domestic violence to drug dealing to affirmative action...
When I was in Israel, I had a chance to visit a museum that commemorates the Holocaust. The point it makes is "Never again." Never again seems to me to be the most important lesson Haitian children can learn. We must transcend the past without drowning ourselves in forgetfulness or vengeance or impunity. I want to erect monuments to our martyrs and perhaps establish a museum like...
...during each of the decades of the 20th century (including Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson) often stings with the power of a Tennessee Williams or a Eugene O'Neill. Though Wilson, unlike composer Davis, sticks to black subject matter, he too seeks to transcend racial limits in his themes. Referring to the late black painter-collagist Romare Bearden, Wilson says, "Bearden has said -- someone asked him about it -- 'I try to explore in terms of the life I know best those things that are common to all culture.' When I read that I said...
...much the form that matters here as that of the content within that form. Think of the sonnet--its construction is rigidly decreed, but poets have demonstrated time and time again that it is possible to transcend the apparent limitations of the sonnet, for within its confines, one can say whatever one wishes. Likewise, Byrd showed that it was possible to outstep the ostensible boundaries for plainsong writing by imbuing it with a passion (perhaps a bit cerebral by Romantic standards, but potent passion nevertheless) that stemmed from his religious frustration as a staunch Roman Catholic in Anglican England. Similarly...