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...ease with which men died in the Canal Zone: "Dynamite explosions, landslides, steam shovels toppling over, cranes swinging quickly by and crushing heads as they went, railroad accidents, falls from scaffolding while building the enormous locks and gates, and all the various diseases generated significant anxiety. A man named Albert Banister worked in the boiler room at Cristobal and related how casually death appeared in conversations: 'Man died get blow up get kill or get drown during the time someone would asked where is Brown he died last night and burry where is Jerry he dead a little before dinner...
...mention those assigned to him by posterity, the one that receives the least attention is that of secretary.” Debord’s correspondences reveal a leader who is a stickler for details—more politician than artist. Many letters find Debord nagging the various members of SI for projects that have not met their deadlines, and in many others he catalogues how many copies of a certain article need to go to specifically designated places. There are few letters of great philosophical weight to be found. A typical letter from Debord to the members...
...mythological. There is a long list of questions, any one of which could be investigated, that would indicate that its makers were aware of their task—or even connected to reality. What does the Hajj as an act of worship in total communion mean for the various disparate sects and nationalities of the Muslim world? What does a tradition that remains obstinate in the face of modernity say about the rapidly modernizing groups of people who still take part in it? How does the pilgrimage, understood by the faith as a totally pure experience, act dialectically with...
...that gives momentum to the transition from chorus to verse, the folksy vocal melismas that make the chorus downright infectious, and the blissful, gospel-esque vocal solo that delivers the song to its outro. M. Ward’s excellent and intuitive songwriting is the glue that holds these various stylistic elements in harmony rather than in dissonance.On a consistent basis, M. Ward is able to integrate his eclectic instrumentation brilliantly as he does on the album’s best song, “Epistemology.” In the song’s chorus, for instance, M. Ward...
...building. The pictures present the same, grid-like, glass-windowed Tower; the only noticeable difference is that they are taken with different lighting. The sole creative element of these large, vertically oriented photographs is how they are reminiscent of Monet’s paintings of cathedrals at various times of the day. Otherwise, the intent behind the series is ambiguous, as it seems only to depict a superficially beautiful image of a skyscraper. Such a representation of the Hancock Tower lacks an intriguing perspective as well as a sense of artistic mastery...