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...express faith in any cultural context,” Asani added...
While Alex Altman's article will one day be considered prophetic for its facts and truth, a wider context might be needed [May 26]. Harlem's gentrification is no different from the gentrification occurring all over New York City. From bodegas turned Starbucks in the East Village to the Disneyfication of Times Square, pushing out the old and ushering in the new has been transforming our neighborhoods. The perpetrators? Real estate developers, the politicians and residents who desire progress in our city and those who can afford to pay the high rents and prices. Sadly, the effect of this progress...
...less in the work itself than the medium chosen for presenting it, as one viewer pointed out. "It's dangerous to do something as emotive and important as this without some kind of dialogue, set only to a music track," wrote Loz. "Set within a film, in a context, I'm sure it wouldn't feel this...
...buying your ticket, no shifting in your seat with popcorn in hand; no stiff new book to crack open; no grappling with an artist's meaning in solemn galleries. Framed by neither the walls of a cinema or museum, nor the written page, YouTube is a kind of non-context, an ether from which one draws images designed for rapid, repeated consumption. Content of great value mixes with bullies terrorizing their classmates, public flatulence and some six-year-old's piano recital...
...educate" followers of the group. "If the government issues the ban we will tell our followers to protect them," he told reporters at a press conference. Rizieq said recent clips of an FPI member on the Internet calling for the death of Ahmadiyah followers were taken out of context, as the video was filmed at a closed gathering of FPI members and did not represent the views of his organization, a puritanical group best known for its raids on bars and nightclubs...