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...just a critique of file-sharing, “Lossless” offers a captivating look at the possibilities and effects of a digital culture. The alterations often lead to striking results. In “Lossless #2,” a short film created from an incomplete bit torrent download, disparate images mesh with each other. A woman sticking out her tongue becomes another woman sitting down at a table; a cushion hides a female face. Similar merging runs through “Lossless #5,” as strings of dancing girls blur into a wispy line...
...counteract the hardening environment, the McCain campaign has begun to shift strategy, hoping to change the subject from the economy's woes to questions about Obama's character and readiness to lead. Over the weekend, it unleashed a torrent of fresh attacks on Obama, including a claim by Palin on Saturday that Obama was someone who would "pal around with terrorists," a reference to Obama's limited relationship with William Ayers, a former violent antiwar activist who now works as a professor in Chicago. The claim, which is supported by campaign ads that ask "Who is Barack Obama?," follow...
...designed to overshadow the President. First, Fred Thompson, the popular Law & Order star and former presidential candidate, will try to fire up the crowd in St. Paul. He will be followed by Joe Lieberman, the self-described "independent Democrat" whom McCain flirted with for his running mate, ensuring a torrent of media coverage. By the time Lieberman, the former running mate for Al Gore, is done, Bush's eight minutes should be a dim memory...
...centuries, the children of Abraham--Jews, Christians and Muslims alike--have venerated the Jordan River. So much so that "crossing over Jordan" has become a mystical metaphor for liberation and resurrection. These days, it's the river itself that could use some resurrecting. Instead of a mighty torrent "deep and wide," as the gospel songs proclaim, much of the river is a thin rivulet of brown slime largely obscured by reeds. Most of what now flows in between the Jordan's banks is human sewage, almost all of it untreated. The river where John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus...
...last week's episode of Murphy Brown (arguably the most politically correct show on TV, now that Designing Women is gone), a newscaster got into trouble for calling a female fighter pilot a ''girl.'' Audience members at a town-hall meeting later overreacted with a torrent of p.c.-speak: a tall woman with glasses, for instance, demanded to be called ''vertically enhanced'' and ''visually challenged.'' The p.c. backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, has just come out, with its tongue...