Each youth (there were a total of 24) stood for an entire hour on the same spot. . . . The video potraits were shot in one continuous take over a period of 26 hours. The footage was then compressed, so that each segment of 60 minutes became 4 minutes. The result is that the standing youth are the anchor in a frenetic society that swirls around them at high speed and ignores them. . . . The homeless are the strong center of this world, and the supposedly more fortunate people who are driving cars and shopping rush around in a meaningless blur.Each person (they do not give their names on the video, but there are photographic portraits that identify them) speaks about what was most on their minds...
—Susan Platt, Real Change newspaper, Vol. 10, No. 15
This sounds like an interesting video project, and looks like one from the stills in the paper. But the journalist needs to read Against Interpretation. Just the facts, please.
The Astros have been in even worse shape, using three starters with less than two years of major-league experience. Signing Clemens to go with right-hander Roy Oswalt and left-hander Andy Pettitte again gives them a legitimate Big Three once again. If Clemens, after several minor-league tuneups, proves anywhere near as good as he was last season, he will give the team precisely the lift it needs.
