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BILL: Well, Chris, you’ve surely stumbled upon a fantastic tribute to drugs, a fully realized study and celebration of self-medication. Smile can’t respond to that sort of cohesive vision; for more than thirty years it existed only unfinished as fragments tucked away on obscure bootlegs. But in truth I like Smile not in spite of its failure, but rather because of it. The hype was justified, the music was that good, and yet it crashed and burned and it’s all very tragic and still wonderful. In Sept. 1966, Brian Wilson...
...floorboards—that’s it. The camera begins to pan ever so slowly across the floor; we hear nothing and only see the grainy, wooden expanse of floorboard, board after board laid perfectly side by side—sparse and chic turned ominous. The camera stumbles upon a door, it bursts open, the hand of the dying woman drops, a guttural boom blasts from the sub and that four-dollar bucket of flat Diet Coke resting patiently at your side becomes fizzy and fresh on your lap as you jump—hard...
...they highlight the deep divide between the two camps. His actions are driven by a conviction that Mary Cheney, as a member of an oppressed group, should act out of loyalty for her cohorts. She should be a good ally and use her position of relative power to insist upon full marriage benefits for same-sex couples...
That argument, however, is contingent upon Cheney buying into an ideology that necessarily sees a weighty connection between herself and, say, a working-class male immigrant whose primary relationships are with men. The ideology demands that we see ourselves as agents only insofar as we are positioned in a social web. Whatever we do, whatever political platform we speak for, we do so as a composite of identities. And if we happen to be Mary Cheney, we do so as the lesbian daughter of a wealthy white vice president of the United States...
...meter course, competitors at the Head of the Charles traverse their way along a nearly three-mile course that takes them on a scenic waterfront tour of Cambridge. It’s a tour that they might enjoy a bit more if they weren’t drawing upon every ounce of strength in their bodies. The race begins in the Charles River Basin, between MIT and Boston University, and ends at a point in the river just past the Harvard University campus...