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...pieces in Thoughts Unsaid, now Forgotten, a show of the artist Cerith Wyn Evans’ work currently up at the MIT’s List Visual Art Center, is a black chandelier hanging from the ceiling that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT?...
...poignant nostalgia at MIT, an institution which clearly plays a major role in the never ending technological revolution of our time. But this kind of deeply contextual meaning isn’t something we’re used to talking about in art, and if nothing else Thoughts Unsaid, now Forgotten is a reminder that it may still be a long time before critics and viewers alike are comfortable with it. In the meantime, though, you might as well head down to MIT to check things out for yourself...
...what she's thinking.") They keep every scene rich and lively, in a film of cutting words and subtle gestures. It's also attuned to the language, and body language, of evasion - the way people lie to spare feelings, mostly their own. Some much is said, and left unsaid, by evasive glances. Women can read these looks like books; men are usually a little less fluent in that language...
However, the real wit of this film is not in what it says, but in what it allows to go unsaid. While Alec Baldwin, Peter Jennings, and Susan Sarandon see more than their fair share of unadulterated and unflinching mockery, the one figure that is curiously and notably absent is the man himself: George W. Bush. At first glance, one might say that the South Park boys decided to leave Dubya out of this in order to make their work as non-partisan as possible and separate it from what is rapidly becoming a faceless mass of Bush-bashing films...
...story have never criticized the heart of it ... that George Bush received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard and, once accepted, failed to satisfy the requirements of his service," Rather said. That may be true and important, but it is the kind of thing better left unsaid by the subject of a media inquisition...