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...Like all government-assistance programs, a car-owner-assistance program would eventually cost taxpayers money. An agency, probably part of the Treasury, could give banks the money to help qualified car buyers keep their vehicles. A man sitting in his house looking out the window could see a car he is helping to pay for sitting in the next-door neighbor's driveway. A really clever car-loan bailout program would allow the taxpayer to use his neighbor's car as compensation for his higher taxes. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...
...were nothing more than window dressing.' HAZEL EDNEY, an African-American reporter, on not getting called on despite being seated in the front row of President Barack Obama's first prime-time press conference...
Some would argue that that's a matter of scale--that it's impossible to be moved by something in a 4-in. (10 cm) video window. I'm not so sure. Hunched over my tiny screens lately, I've found myself riveted by Battlestar Galactica, provoked by a YouTube animation about the credit crisis and verklempt over an old video I posted of my son blowing bubbles in the bathtub. Big screen and tiny may have their differences, but where there's engagement, there's emotion. The screen that matters most is still the one where the story lingers...
...Delivering on that promise, the films screened last weekend reflected an appreciation for spontaneity and innovation. “I was amused by making a kind of ‘jazz’ film,” Jacobs said in reference to his 1964 work “Window.” “A film that was made in the camera. No editing—a truthful film.” The short film is 16 minutes of pure silence, made with an 8mm camera that shifts dramatically, zooms in and out, and never focuses on its subject...
...that Termite’s transcendental nature is flat and incompatible with the greater story, while Benjy’s presence is one that illuminates religious allegory. Even the poetic prose of his section lends Termite an elevating sense of omniscience. “He sits by the window and hears the faint roots of the grass in the berm of the alley, long veiny threads that reach deep in the ground to drink where no one sees.” These elements fail to indicate any deeper, more enlightening reading of the story, and since they are not sufficiently...