Word: disinterest
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...suggests a ragged off-off-Broadway play. And De Palma is not going for subtlety here: Flake, the craziest of the squad members, has a Confederate flag for his bedspread - he's a lunatic Reb. But Redacted pretty successfully sustains a dual level of hysteria (in its content) and disinterest (in its film-long framing devices). It's an amazingly vigorous work for a filmmaker who turns 67 on Sept. 11, and his strongest cinematic and political statement at least since Casualties of War, his Vietnam film of 1989. The movie is a cry of national shame; for De Palma...
...From the day the concert series was announced by former Vice-President Al Gore, Live Earth had to battle doubt and disinterest. The public had grown increasingly jaded over all-star charity rock festivals, particularly two years after the even larger Live 8 benefit shows for Africa and global poverty. (Live 8 organizer Sir Bob Geldof dismissed Gore's effort as "just an enormous pop concert.") And while the organizers claimed to be raising awareness, critics scolded that the global public is well aware of the perils of climate change...
...times have changed. Electors are no longer chosen for their intellect, but are mere messengers of the state’s electoral vote. And people are more informed today than our Founding Fathers could have ever imagined. Thanks to technology, nothing but disinterest prevents the average citizen from having just as much information as the elector...
Etchemendy is seen as especially qualified for the Harvard presidency due to his ability to work successfully with faculty and because his responsibilities at Stanford are similar to those of a Harvard president. But Etchemendy has been unequivocal in his disinterest for the Harvard job since September, when he told the Stanford Daily that he had “no intention or desire to leave my current position...
Several sources close to the search committee say that the group is not paying attention to candidates’ publicly stated interest or disinterest in the presidency. Still, the statements by Etchemendy and Richard, 58, suggest that the search committee may have to expand its list of finalists if it’s not content with a choice between the two insiders, Faust and Kagan...