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...expectation that events would run like clockwork was disappointed on January 20, casting the tiniest of palls on an extraordinary day certain to join our mystic chords of memory. When the chief justice rendered “faithfully?? the successor to the word “president” and not the predecessor of the word “execute,” I felt betrayed of the perfection promised not by the historic character of Barack Obama’s inauguration but by the Constitution itself. Time was hardly “out of joint?...
...textually self-reflexive message about American constitutionalism at play here. The linguistic coincidence is delightful, and only with its recognition did my awkwardness about the events of January 20 evaporate for good. The now-infamous verbal cog in the constitutional mechanism—the word “faithfully??—invokes the very quality most on display in the repeat performance at the White House. In other words, Mr. Obama’s very pursuit of strict constitutional fidelity powerfully confirms our new president’s understanding of—and intention to perform?...
Obama and Roberts, both of whom were high-ranking editors on the Harvard Law Review, provided one of the lone gaffes of the day by botching the wording of the oath: Roberts twice recited the worth “faithfully?? out of order, causing Obama to pause momentarily before he too recited the oath with the word out of place...
...most part, the exhibition does an excellent job of presenting Ono’s early works, though their participatory spirit is somewhat obscured by the “Do not touch” signs that ring the more fragile pieces. Ono’s films are presented more faithfully??and, considering that most of her other works are readily “imagined” in the comfort of your dorm-room, they constitute the best reason for visiting the show. In the age of Bergman and Godard, Ono was once again at the forefront of cinematic experimentation...
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