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...cinemetography is good, direction OK. The closing scenes (namely McKellen's acting) make me cry. I shiver as the cold numbers (the "Butcher's Bill"), like ticker tape, flash periodically at the bottom of the screen. Elton John's "The Last Song" haunts me. Reagan's inglorious ascent parallels perfectly the disease's inaugural progress. Gays are bestowed some sympathetic representation. Best line: "I'm not afraid of dying anymore. I'm afraid for the people who live...
...mumbled something about cost and took the tape to my old, battered jambox--the old battered jambox sitting very close on my dresser to my favorite pair of jeans, which I've had since I was 14 and which have holes in the knees that must be constantly repaired. My baby blanket was lying on the floor next to the dresser...
Perhaps I don't want to let go of what they represent. My jambox was what I listened to the morning I entered high school and the nights while I did homework--and there's no way I could get a CD to equal the terrific mix tape my friend Aasma gave me for Christmas of 1990. I've written everything from book reports to tutorial papers on my MacWrite...
Also, by now I know all my hold-out objects inside out--how to coax my old lamp to light, how to retrieve the rewind button when it falls into my tape player. I can't find jeans that fit me as well as my old ones do any-more. They've adjusted to me and I to them, to the point where we fit each other perfectly...
Hanging over the surface of each platter is a tiny metal head which reads and writes data on the disk, much like the mechanism used in a tape recorder. During normal operations, the head never comes into direct contact with the platter's surface...