Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...just how far can American spies go as they try to prevent terror? The CIA has human-rights guidelines for dealing with bad guys and says they don't impede its mission: it calculates risk against reward for getting involved. Yet critics say the CIA is still too shy about trying to infiltrate terrorist groups for fear the politicians won't back its agents if they get they get their hands dirty. "We have seen a risk-averse environment [at the CIA] because of that," says a top intelligence-community source. "Case officers [wonder], Will the government be there when...
...Book IV. I do think it's shocking, but it had to be. It is not a gratuitous act on my part. We really are talking about someone who is incredibly power hungry. Racist, really. And what do those kinds of people do? They treat human life so lightly. I wanted to be accurate in that sense. My editor was shocked by the way the character was killed, which was very dismissive. That was entirely deliberate. That is how people die in those situations. It was just like, You're in my way and you're going...
...drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when...
...music. She took seriously the example of the avant-garde composer John Cage, who incorporated actual noise into his work. For the soundtrack of Fly, Ono simply makes a succession of nerve-jangling vocal sounds--ululations and sudden shrieks, weird cooing and feline melismas--that are unworldly but unmistakably human. To put it mildly, her voice is not the ideal instrument for mainstream pop, but it can have the cracked charm of Neil Young's or Kurt Cobain's. If she had not been too famous by the late '70s to make a name for herself, she might have found...
...couple of days later, the telephone rang, but it was the Democratic Reassurer. He said he had checked with people high up in the campaign and could say with absolute certainty that Al Gore is not a body shell inhabited by a human-speaking alien...