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...self-inflicted generators of will-o-wisps, video games symbolize and intensify our collective hallucinations. In a republic pasted together from factions, only the lowest common denominators can supply the glue, so the delusion runs. Video games exist to make money for their owners; their appeal made as broad and base as possible. Ironically, the simple pictures that glare so phosphorescently will sponsor only further fragmentation, not greater unity...
...smell of airplane glue hangs heavy in the aisle of Woolworth's model department. There is everything here, from a 1979 Chevy Blazer (what kind of kid assembles these?) to a replica of the Flying White House, the Boeing 747 also known as the Doomsday Plane where the president will go to sit and watch his country incinerate. It is, the box promises, an exact duplicate of the model that sits at Fort Edwards...
...Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout his career: harshly dissonant modernism, soaring lyricism and frankly tonal conservatism. But the glue that holds his work together is its humanism. Henze's music is meant to be played and listened to by people, not computers. With serialism now in some disrepute, his stature as one who saw another path for postwar music looms larger than ever...
...larries do the bulk work, in this case a lot of hand smearing of stucco on elaborate stairs and platforms, a lot of painting, a lot of sealing cracks with muslin and Elmer's glue. The techies are left to chip away at details the rest of the week, assemble platforms into superstructures, dream up fanciful gels and filters for lighting--and, Thursday night, to dim the houselights and see what they have...
...spend such a long time by Nasser's side...I must have been, they concluded, either too insignificant or too cunning...All there was to it was that Nasser and I had been friends (for a long time)." Sadat had an almost fanatical belief in loyalty and thought the glue of friendship sufficient to keep even those who disagree together. In fact, he affirmed that he continually, if not always publicly, contested Nasser's policies. Upon the latter's death, it was only natural, said Sadat, to follow his own course, contradictions with the past now irrelevant...