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Things just aren't making sense—or they are making sense, but in a way that we don't want to accept.
It was truly the most, am I making sense here?
One wishes these leaders luck making sense of it all.
Sometimes what made sense for a while stops making sense.
That perspective is crucial to making sense of his conservatism.
Making sense of a subway network is one such example.
That's the same as a sentence not making sense, syntactically.
Go deeper: Making sense of Trump's big offshore drilling push
Here is how I'm making sense of the situation: 1.
"That erraticness ... was crucial to it making sense," Sugar said.
I love making sense of a hot mess, you know?
Also: Making sense of the terrorism directed at top Democrats.
"Currently U.S. crude is making sense to us," Thangapandian said.
As for the throttling drama, making sense of the various articles and videos benchmarking these machines has been nothing less than head-spinning, and making sense of all the differing results has been a challenge.
Eventually, Deel said, it stopped making sense to pursue her passion.
"That wasn't making sense for me anymore," the reality star wrote.
"But no — he's still funny, still making sense," Lynn has decided.
Twitter needs the "What about Facebook" question to stop making sense.
Here's one way of making sense of the misfire between us.
It didn't take long for that plan to stop making sense.
In her exhaustion, the data was not making sense to her.
Making sense of this requires a trip back to the late 1980s.
By the early 1980s, he'd recovered his health and resumed making sense.
If we're no longer making sense, let's go full-tilt for spectacle.
"This was my way of making sense of everything," O'Connell told Refinery29.
Otherwise, they might have been better at making sense of the music.
It has more to do with data and making sense of it.
Making sense of it all now might be hard—don't overanalyze things.
One flourishing area of activity lies in making sense of it all.
She has moments where she realizes she's the only one making sense.
Communication planet Mercury opposes sleepy Neptune, and not much is making sense.
The podcast I'm recommending this week, "Making Sense," is one of them.
"But I have seen 'Stop Making Sense,' like, five times," he said.
Go deeper: Making sense of an oil giant's net-zero carbon pledge
Michelle Schroeder-Gardner runs the personal finance blog Making Sense of Cents.
I first watched Stop Making Sense a little over ten years ago.
"Once I knew that he had Alzheimer's everything started making sense," she said.
As I've written before, making sense of all these options is not easy.
They want help making sense of the thicket of information that surrounds them.
Shrier's jumpy, and he isn't totally making sense, but his mind's still there.
It's Akerman living and making sense of her granular feelings toward her mother.
Some start-ups will fail as their paths to profit stop making sense.
Here are three trades that come closest to making sense for both sides.
I'm hoping Archie starts making sense soon — and lets Val leave his house.
Alas, he is less good at making sense of its undesirable side-effects.
Making sense of the crosscurrents in the monthly employment data can be difficult.
In any case, however, it's important to understand that they're not making sense.
"Stop Making Sense" (1984), documentary about the Talking Heads by Jonathan Demme. Aug.
However, making sense of this senselessness, well, that's what I'm currently struggling with.
Save important conversations for another time because things aren't making sense right now!
It's long past the point of making sense, but people still do it.
Was it just her, or was Marianne Williamson actually kind of making sense?
Still, they are a good starting point to making sense of the results.
I think black people in general, they're watching and making sense of [my music].
This failure, however, becomes an entry point to making sense of what is happening.
Military metaphors were familiar, but they stopped making sense when the war was me.
In the 80s, he directed Stop Making Sense, a documentary about the Talking Heads.
Sometimes, being a fan and making sense of the brackets requires those same skills.
Mercury is retrograde, so things aren't totally making sense—take it slow for now.
Making sense of the tragedy has been difficult for even these elite, professional sailors.
It was a way of making sense of my time in Barcelona, not Portofino.
There are imprints of Demme's style on Stop Making Sense found throughout Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids: from the shadow of the suit at the beginning of the show to close-ups of the performers to an intimacy onstage in Stop Making Sense.
Analysis: Making sense of the US-China trade war What happens in a trade war?
This is a record about coping with omnipotent chaos and making sense of the senseless.
You've compared it, loosely, to Stop Making Sense — at least in its level of ambition.
I do feel like short stories are a way of making sense of those shifts.
Algorithms are an invaluable tool for making sense of the immense universe of information online.
Logical Mercury enters fellow smart Air sign Gemini today, and finally things are making sense.
This is where ballet starts making sense as a changeling art adopted as Russia's own.
Making sense of them as a whole, however, might not be desirable or even possible.
It's about making sense of a staggering amount of data from internal and external sources.
Making sense of the insensible David Kessler, an author, grief expert and founder of Grief.
From a civilian perspective, making sense of the situation begins with understanding how leadership works.
It will bring you creativity, connection, and inspiration, but "making sense" just isn't Neptune's jam.
Your friend runs to your side and helps you up as everything starts making sense.
Smarter Living: Need help making sense of an invitation that specifies "cocktail" or "semiformal" dress?
Your feelings are very big this month, and making sense of them will take time.
The Shortlist MAKING SENSE The Glamorous Story of English Grammar By David Crystal 281 pp.
Here's some context for Mr. Trump's clemency and how people are making sense of it.
"By making sense of our collective history, we understand ourselves as historical agents," he said.
"By making sense of our collective history, we understand ourselves as historical agents," he said.
Making Sense Of Disequilibrium In The Markets First, let's briefly revisit that college Psych 43 class.
Go deeper: Here's Obama's last official health report, as a guideline for making sense of today's.
Character development is non-existent, to the point that things stop making sense after a while.
Plus, Viktor's emotional journey has the benefit of making sense, unlike his so much of rival's.
Yet, now my daughter is in preschool and making sense of the social world around her.
And understanding them goes a long ways towards making sense of Google's "try everything" messaging strategy.
Someone making sense of the incomprehensible, implying there's hope to be found in seemingly hopeless situations?
Making sense of WeWork's S-1 (or trying to) Cloudflare Cloudflare files for initial public offering
He's pissed people off by being xenophobic, by being mean, and by just not making sense.
Messenger planet Mercury opposes hazy Neptune, creating a difficult energy for communication—nothing is making sense!
It felt like a test we were failing or a novel that had stopped making sense.
It felt like a test we were failing or a novel that had stopped making sense.
" AGE 52 HOMETOWN Tenafly, N.J. Show that inspired you to be a theatermaker: "Stop Making Sense.
Our team quickly set about making sense of what it means, and potential winners and losers.
Here's how people are making sense of the devastation, who's to blame and how to help.
But making sense isn't the point; the report's function is to obscure reality, not illuminate it.
Black Widow's ever-changing hair styles have been helpful in making sense of the MCU timelines.
The numbers I'm reading stop making sense, so I close my laptop and go to sleep.
Here's the show's official synopsis—good luck making sense of it: What does it all mean?
Having trouble making sense of all the Kardashian drama that's gone down in the past few months?
But lots of times, readers had no way of making sense of those developments or contextualizing them.
They are in the business of making sense of the torrent of information constantly deluging us all.
The Daily Beast's Will Sommer is another great resource for making sense of all of the chaos.
Are my words making sense or do you need me to write on some clothes for you.
Making sense of the contradictory, whimsical and largely evidence-free doctrines he and others espoused is difficult.
You may be able to decipher the words, but making sense of the text will be tedious.
By the time such openness stopped making sense, massive growth made it tough to change basic services.
But the human brain is not that deft at harnessing and making sense of all that data.
When it comes to choosing roles, "I love making sense of a hot mess," Allison Janney said.
" The rest of the industry said, "Okay, T-Mobile's really making sense here with them doing this.
These theories provide a convenient framework for making sense of Russia; they are also tinged with moralism.
It's my way of shrinking my fright, managing my anxiety and making sense of what I see.
Yet with just a few rules of thumb, it's easy to start making sense of them, too.
It's very interesting, too, that Hollywood started making sense to me once I went away from there.
But the real bottleneck remained in the process of making sense of those images—the segmentation problem.
If something is not making sense to you, ask for clarification and examples to deepen your understanding.
He found it to be a good lens through which to keep making sense of his injuries.
I haven't seen so much flesh since Freshers Week; the term "meat market" suddenly, dazzlingly making sense.
"As I tell you these ingredients, they're probably not making sense to you," Saldana says with a grin.
The social web is teeming with astrologers, professional and amateur, making sense of stars for the modern world.
Those cute additions actually make sense, but we're having trouble making sense of this yearbook featuring Ryan Gosling.
It did, however, have a hard time making sense of when I'd purposefully put myself in tense situations.
I've been telling myself to sort out a David Byrne in Stop Making Sense costume for two years.
"These rural communities are losing grocery stores, and it isn't making sense to keep them open," she said.
In lieu of either factually representing or making sense of the world, they invite us to escape it.
Making sense of her every line, she removes the obstacle to naturalness that verse can be when spoken.
A flood of intuitive insight arrives on this day, and you're making sense of your needs and limits.
Neither run-and-gun or high-concept Scorsese camerawork could do what Demme does with Stop Making Sense.
We're also good at making sense of ambiguity, and extrapolating what might exist outside the border of the photograph.
Today in the red chair, I'm very excited to have Sam Harris, the host of the podcast Making Sense.
This campaign is like a TV show that's gone on for too many seasons and has stopped making sense.
I've always loved math and the challenge of making sense of a chaotic world through the clarity of numbers.
Elie Godsi, a consultant clinical psychologist and author of Violence and Society: Making Sense of Madness and Badness, disagrees.
Upstream Color, his 2013 follow-up, ups the production value considerably—but good luck making sense out of it.
But James was the one to interpret Michael's horrific act—not only making sense of it, but also art.
Philosophy has always dealt with meaning-of-life questions and with suffering—making sense and meaning out of suffering.
It all started making sense to me, what Russell was saying, in the drippy way things could make sense.
I said I was still making sense of it all, and I wanted to talk to him about it.
VICE News spent the afternoon at Stonewall and spoke to people about how they're making sense of the tragedy.
In this video she's barely making sense as she frantically shows off random shit she owns with immense pride.
Especially in the second act, as the plot tries to wind itself into a climax, they stop making sense.
That can "significantly reduce the severity of a claim", she said, making sense for both insurers and their clients.
"Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs that we ask our brain to do," Kraus explained.
It was just a way to express disagreement, and not unlike the Sabra commercial, it stopped making sense entirely.
I run a website, Making Sense of Cents, and tend to do all my work at the dining table.
Our reporters in Washington spent the week covering and making sense of the latest developments in the impeachment inquiry.
Making sense of a very crowded election: This graphic shows what your ballot may look like in the Feb.
He's interested in the in-between, making sense of historical and political forces in a kind of liminal space.
It resists efforts at making "sense," though there are plenty of keys strewn throughout to unlock its many secrets.
It's also about making sense of a relentlessly chaotic administration that's left many Americans with a sense of ongoing instability.
That's why being able to unlock an encrypted phone is so important to making sense of the data on it.
Opinion: Making sense of L.A.'s homelessness crisis Los Angeles spent more than $600 million last year to combat homelessness.
Making sense of upside-down rates So which market is right — the bullish stock market or the bearish bond market?
Nothing about Bitcoin is making sense right now, and that makes it a really attractive option in these confusing times.
That said, several tax and budget watchdog groups have taken a shot at making sense of Clinton's and Trump's proposals.
That said, several tax and budget watchdog groups have taken a shot at making sense of Clinton's and Trump's proposals.
I guess it would really be a big package deal, where fear and its anxiety kin just stop making sense.
Tfw your plane lands in New Zealand and you discover that the world stopped making sense mid-flight #Election2016 pic.twitter.
Some companies offer billing advocacy services for workers who need help making sense of their bill or getting errors fixed.
Herrine: And we're also looking for just, like, a general great-tasting sandwich with all the elements making sense altogether.
Sign up for The New Yorker's Midterms 2018 newsletter Making sense of the midterms, every week in your in-box.
" Saze: "Over time you develop a formula and the numbers start making sense, but even then, there's always a risk.
Since then, Dorsey made news on The Bill Simmons Podcast, and then on the Making Sense podcast with Sam Harris.
From struggling to make new friends to making sense of my faith in an unfamiliar environment, it was rough times.
Understanding this shift is key to making sense of the current international tensions and how they are interpreted in Iran.
Mr. Wofford lectured widely and wrote a memoir, "Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties," published in 1980.
And female Senate aides must also process a nation's sexual trauma after a year spent making sense of their own.
CHENNAI, India — Usha Prabakaran was at home, talking on the phone with a college friend, when she stopped making sense.
Like Job, we have to admit to the limitations of human knowledge when it comes to making sense of suffering.
He appeared with Ezra Klein of Vox and Sam Harris, the author and host of the popular "Making Sense" podcast.
Religion is not an explanatory theory of the world; it's a way of making sense of living in the world.
The couple told PEOPLE they were "blindsided" by Trent's actions and have spent the days since making sense of it all.
How they are making sense of themselves, others, and the world around them, and then how are they acting on that?
The downside of using any of these extensions is that the majority of Twitter and Facebook content will stop making sense.
Until the White House starts making sense again, we'll have to get used to dealing with our own problems by ourselves.
At Facebook, Mehanna's team built software for making sense of users' text and a system for running employees' machine learning workloads.
He grabbed her by the hair and threw her against a wall, speaking in riddles and not making sense, she said.
That's because the problem that Accompany is facing is one of making sense of an immense inbound amount of unstructured data.
As it is, in his crucial debates with Oscar, even when he's making sense, Bosie is not to be taken seriously.
But our aptitude for managing the future is no stronger than our skill at making sense out of the past. ♦
You're having a rough time making sense of things this morning, which is very unlike you, making this even more frustrating.
Sometimes I was afraid that it was going to start making sense — the words that were popping out of his mouth.
Problems with casting ballots are a regular feature of Election Day, and making sense of them could take days and weeks.
When researchers first recovered DNA from Neanderthal bones, the available techniques for making sense of it were powerful but relatively simple.
The indefatigable linguist Crystal's latest book, "Making Sense," is a surprisingly entertaining historical and scholarly tour of the mechanics of English.
It is effective in any multicandidate race, but it's ideal for making sense of a large and fractured pool of candidates.
What matters is making sense of the apparent strangeness or incompatibility of contrasting and different perspectives to help leaders navigate turbulence.
He wasn't making sense or even registering who I was, and I had to act under the crushing weight of panic.
"The more I found out about MS, the more a lot of things started making sense," he wrote in his note.
Fewer than a dozen sites around the world are devoted to the science of gathering and making sense of human remains.
But once I sit down with the work, slowly, very slowly it all starts coming together and connecting and making sense.
Perhaps unexpectedly, theatre can be an instrument for thinking about politics and making sense of Trump, Brexit and other political upheavals.
In other words, conservatives are more this - and libs are more this - is this making sense just to clear up any confusion?
Let's close with something useful for readers who are interested in reading Arendt as a way of making sense of the present.
That sometimes means defining metrics, creating visualizations to see changes over time, or making sense of the large datasets that we have.
" And in some cases, she says, "a mantra expires," and is no longer a useful tool for "making sense of your circumstances.
His point highlights the incredibly rare and specific circumstances that might lead to a coup even making sense in the United States.
DeRay also believes Kanye's simply not making sense because he's uninformed, but has a suggestion on how he can fix that problem.
However, when making sense of collected data, machine learning applied to big data collection can lead to a range of interpretation mistakes.
I'd heard others talk about health insurance for their pets, but seven years in, the numbers hadn't come close to making sense.
A substantial portion of the brain (a third or more) is involved with making sense of the input from the visual system.
US schools have moved away from speed and accuracy—sometimes called "drill and kill"—and toward discussing and making sense of math.
The narratives driving marketsIn making sense of the downtrend in Treasury yields and what caused it, recession fears are the clear culprits.
The key to liberating yourself from the legacy of the past is by making sense of how the past has impacted you.
Some people reading about this might feel a little nervous about making sense of their past because those experiences were so terrifying.
Several readers have emailed me asking for help in making sense of this story, which is often known as the dossier story.
Extremism more often follows crises in identity and in community, when other narratives of making sense of the self have fallen away.
So much of late-night television these days is about making sense of what can sometimes feel like a disorienting political reality.
If that is true, then there is something left for philosophy to do, by way of making sense of the human condition.
Some feelings you've had a hard time making sense of are beginning to feel clearer—are you ready to talk about it?
To get help making sense of all these upheavals and tragedies, I reached out to Harvard psychology professor and polymath Steven Pinker.
The great thing about music not making sense anymore is that we have underground figures collaborating with mainstream giants on the regular.
We need help making sense of research, and in turn, helping readers (who include patients, policymakers, and doctors) to do the same.
Stop Making Sense is available to stream for free via Fandor and SundanceNow, and to rent via Amazon and other streaming services.
Even with all the fancy math designed to help scientists do this, making sense of all that data is still a big challenge.
KN: And finally, we've got Subject Line, where curation editor Elamin Abdulmahmoud does the herculean feat of making sense of this week's news.
" Acknowledge When Something Isn't Making Sense "Don't be afraid to say 'I don't understand' and look for additional explanations or ways of thinking.
Lethal White is Rowling's stab at making sense of the rise of populist politics in the UK, and it is much less so.
When making sense of the youth voter turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, there's good news, bad news, and some more good news.
In China and the West alike, power comes from controlling data, making sense of it, and using it to influence how people behave.
Laura had been paralyzed by the daunting task of it for a couple of years, and needed help making sense of it all.
As I'd played a chunk of said 3DS adventure, this is what I hung onto while making sense of the dual-profession setup.
And since a lot of businesses rely on Excel for making sense of data, the program includes intensive training on just Excel, too.
The look teeters somewhere between "Stop Making Sense"-era David Byrne and Uncle Fester Addams — not one for everyone, to say the least.
Making sense of statistics and graphs — whether displayed in a graph, chart or map — often requires patience, careful observation and lots of practice.
It's an exercise in the best sense, in making sense of something that endured over decades and doesn't lend itself to easy structure.
In the past, making sense of the data often required advanced computer skills and a background in the real estate or construction industry.
This, far more than any alleged Russophilia, is the necessary context for making sense of Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state.
In an interview with Lana Del Rey and Brit Marling, she explained it as a means of making sense of a confusing world.
And while making sense of risks with a new, quick-spreading pathogen is tricky, infectious disease experts are helping us sort it out.
Daniel Levitin, professor of neuroscience and music at McGill University, added that it hinders the brain from organizing and making sense of information.
But one of the first steps to understanding ourselves and increasing confidence and positivity is making sense of what our emotional triggers are.
Six years later, they've accomplished that goal and set out on another challenge — making sense of all that visual data, quickly and efficiently.
When I mentioned the differing interpretations, López-Coto defended their assumption as making sense, and said that HAWC scientists won't rule out pulsars completely.
The whole thing started making sense, all that data started revealing two dimensional shapes, representing the explosions on my nervous system through the parabolas.
When you question why this specific form of so-called "insult" so deeply wounds the woman it's thrown at, it eventually starts making sense.
When deputies questioned him "he appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was not making sense to officers," according to the release.
It's directed by Jonathan Demme, who's responsible for iconic tour documentaries like The Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold.
Context is essential when it comes to making sense of anti-American sentiment in the region, and clarifying representations of Islam in the media.
Numerous startups have popped up and several large, established companies have rolled out products all aimed at capturing and making sense of that data.
At first I thought it was fire, and then his lyrics just stopped making sense and his rhyme scheme was all over the place.
It had bad episodes and good episodes, and its overarching storyline about an alien conspiracy to take over the Earth eventually stopped making sense.
There is more of a focus on unpacking the past, and really for the urgent purpose of making sense of what's happening right now.
It's even more daunting when your story is based on time travel, which means it almost inevitably will stop making sense at some point.
As deputies tried to question him, Crowley appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was not making sense to officers, it said.
Suddenly some things started making sense, he said: the fights over women in discothèques, the barely disguised hostility toward foreign men in the town.
With the publication of their new volume, they have spent almost as much time making sense of O'Neill's life as O'Neill spent living it.
It was, for my money, the most jaw-dropping development yet in an already-surreal presidency, and making sense of it requires some conjecture.
But Stop Making Sense is not that kind of concert film, a point underscored by the film's winking iconic centerpiece of Byrne's giant suit.
One of the many issues Lost faced was a lack of planning when it came to fleshing out and making sense of the show's mythology.
"When deputies tried to interview him, he appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was not making sense to the officers," she said.
Frequently on his shows, a character will be doing something that totally makes sense to them and that the series sells you on making sense.
I took copious notes in the margins of William Bridges' book "Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes" as I mapped potential paths for my future.
Byrne again stripped everything back after the 1984 live album and film of Stop Making Sense, and his perfectionism meant Talking Heads never toured again.
" Still, she said she viewed the study as an indicator of "the importance of gender as a way of making sense of any human being.
But the idea is clearly making sense to a lot of different automakers and logistics providers, which is a sign that the idea has legs.
"No matter how much more in salary I was making, I was still living paycheck to paycheck, which wasn't making sense to me," she says.
Meal prepping might be one of the least enjoyable tasks that comes with adulthood, right behind making sense of health insurance plans and doing taxes.
Many firms include advocacy services as a benefit for employees who need help making sense of bills or checking for errors and getting them fixed.
With society still making sense of 2008's wreckage, have we already gone back to romanticizing well-heeled white men and their fuck-you money?
Formant is launching its closed beta that equips businesses with cloud infrastructure for collecting, making sense of and acting on data from fleets of robots.
The first challenge in such a system is the same as in any natural language processing system, which is just making sense of human speech.
The Rules Do Not Apply addresses each added blow in the clear-eyed manner of a journalist used to making sense of other people's lives.
But computers are even worse than humans in making sense of what is said on social media, particularly when it comes to nuance and context.
The machines, now, are increasingly making sense of our human world — shaping our reality in the deepest way possible, and like cameras themselves, they're inescapable.
This apparently instinctive judgment appears to play an important role in people's ordinary way of making sense of their lives and the world around them.
The difficulty in making sense out of these neurological changes is in relating changes in one part of the brain to changes in other parts.
Spanning three live shows in Los Angeles, Stop Making Sense opens on an empty stage, which is soon graced by Talking Heads leader David Byrne.
We have a lot of feelings, so here's a roundtable making sense of them, featuring Noisey's own Emma Garland, Daisy Jones, Lauren O'Neill, and Tshepo Mokoena.
But along with all the off-kilter slogans and classic band and logo tees, there are others that are so quirky that they stop making sense.
IBM believes that making sense of data embedded in intelligent devices is creating a significant market opportunity that is expected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2020.
Artificial intelligence will have a turnkey role in filling this gap and making sense of the flood of data that IoT devices are generating, Gould believes.
Are we invested enough to do the hard and complicated personal work of making sense of and trying to improve the relationships between the many genders?
Here, quantum effects begin to take over, leaving behind the rules of classical physics that we're used to: solids, liquids, and gases just stop making sense.
It's like, I want the lights like this because I want Black skin to be lit in a certain way… it's always making sense, explaining, justifying.
"The problem these organizations face is no longer sequencing vast quantities of genomic data, but rather making sense of this data quickly and affordably," says Chatzou.
Phone contracts, installment plans, and upgrade eligibility requirements create a thorny mess for buyers, and making sense of it all can feel like doing your taxes.
"Making Sense of 'Brexit' in 4 Charts," which I also wrote before the vote, shows that Leave voters overwhelmingly cited immigration as the most important issue.
Stop Making Sense is frequently cited as one of the best concert films of all time, and is an integral part of Demme's diverse cinematic legacy.
Our final big concert was called Shut Up and Stop Making Sense, which was like their concert film and the Talking Heads' concert film put together.
As the rumor mill heats up over what will be in Apple's next iPhone, it's good to have a strategy for making sense of the predictions.
However, the topics were familiar ones, including how to invest in the right startups, making sense of cryptocurrencies, and the opportunities and pitfalls of social media.
Added to an otherwise pristine delivery, the cloudy interference forces you to work a little harder at sorting and making sense of all this casual beauty.
When we're mere hours away from an iPhone event, rumors stop making sense, because it's easier to just wait and see what Apple has in stock.
Both could be called 'coming-of-age' stories; both trace heart-wrenching tales of young, queer black people making sense of their places in the world.
Thanks to cutting-edge neuroimaging, we're closer now than ever to making sense of the workings of an acid trip: LSD, essentially, makes your mind relax.
Making sense of this famous relationship has been complicated for historians, and Quinn concedes the impossibility of knowing what, exactly, happened between the two women physically.
My colleagues at The Upshot, who specialize in making sense of data, took Amazon's criteria and crunched the numbers to help the company with its selection.
Astrology has existed, in some form, since at least ancient Babylonian times and was long considered a completely logical means of making sense of the world.
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They both started off with generic-looking abstract paintings — that faux-Gerhard-Richter-looking texture [in "Making Sense of Nonsense" (2015)] is from edge to edge.
"Once women actually start being accepted and integrated into professional teams in top tier tournaments, it might stop making sense to have separate gender events," he says.
We'll get to start making sense of all this and see how the madness fits together when Out of the Shadows arrives in theaters on June 3.
For a movie like Mad Max: Fury Road, it can be a perfectly orchestrated linear sequence that gets a bunch of characters involved while still making sense.
I think a clear picture of what happens during an abortion would be helpful to our readers in making sense of some of the debates right now.
Making sense of my debt and how to pay it off has not been easy, and the way I got here isn't something I'm especially proud of.
Confessions of a congressman: 9 secrets from the inside Dating women who were open about their rapes was a necessary step in making sense of my situation.
It provides me with certain symbols and metaphors for thinking about God that I find useful in making sense of the universe and my place in it.
Alongside being a ferocious musical talent, Jehnny Beth of Savages is also a dab hand on the radio, as her Beats 1 show Start Making Sense proves.
After Tuesday's primary, Cruz's chance of winning the nomination outright is impossible, so the narrative has shifted back to making sense of Trump as the presumptive nominee.
Fiction is one of the best vehicles we have for making sense of difference and difficulty, but Trump's approach is to steamroll diversity of thought and opinion.
In today's digital world, in China and the West alike, power comes from controlling data, making sense of it, and using it to influence how people behave.
He was hoping that America , taken in its entirety, would assist not only today's French people but also future generations in making sense of a tumultuous moment.
The women band together to solve a series of murders, while making sense of their origins, and the way they've been affected by their fathers' bizarre experiments.
AI is going to be critical to making sense of all that data and translating it into information that consumers can use and act on, he said.
In making sense of this and other Musk moves, it seems to me that a few facts have been, if not missed, at least not emphasized enough.
So, in the interest of making sense of this reality, we rounded up some of the weirdest ways companies are seeking to benefit from the novel coronavirus.
Making sense of the news, making recommendations to our readers about what it means and what it means for them in terms of the actions they take.
It confirms that, yes, this probably is Byrne's most ambitious stage show since Stop Making Sense, just as he promised and then later sought to play down.
Making sense of what's going on with television these days, even for those of us who write about it, can feel like going rafting with a rake.
None of Trump's attacks on abortion access follow the laws of reason; why did we even bother with "making sense" when we could have simply played ball?
For instance, one project is geared toward making sense of the clinical trials going on at any given time by way of a "control tower," Bodson said.
But since 2007, I have been inviting myself into conversations in rural Wisconsin to try to understand how people in such communities are making sense of politics.
We as a society venerate self-interest and have a hard time making sense of acts of self-sacrifice, like giving an organ to save someone's life.
"Margins are not making sense (for the truckers)," said Joyce Gachugi, manager for PETCO Kenya, adding that the state should waive fees on moving rubbish across county boundaries.
Like Carol last season, he is disillusioned and lost, incapable of making sense of his place in the world and what kind of person he's meant to be.
Then when I started studying back and I was old enough to actually comprehend what they were saying, it all started making sense, common sense, like logical sense.
He's highlighting social issues like gun violence and racism, but also poking fun at the idea of growing up and making sense of one's place in the world.
Making sense of it all is the surest way to see where this technology is going, and whether it's the real deal or mostly just another marketing ploy.
In a universe where someone can throw a hammer, keep a hold on its handle, and fly, it's more sensible not to worry too much about making sense.
Between broken pledges, stolen speeches and Rudy Giuliani screaming "America" about a dozen times, it'd be perfectly understandable for you to have difficulty making sense of it all.
Unfortunately, that means our original $19 and $29 per month plans stopped making sense, and we're in effect losing a lot of money on some of our customers.
Making sense of DNA data is a two-step process, namely the biochemical-sequencing of the DNA and the analyzing and extracting insights from the sequenced DNA data.
Though Olive does a good job making sense of Lacy's story, the film goes off-kilter is in profiling of a group of lynching re-enactors in Georgia.
The challenge, researchers say, is "making sense of the output," but they've developed procedures for doctors to determine the most-likely cause of infection from the genomic data.
But research shows that fact fluency (the ability to easily recall facts, such as 3 x 5 = 15)—is best developed from first making sense of arithmetic operations.
As is well-documented at this point, early voting is up substantially from the last midterm election, but making sense of those trends requires careful attention to context.
Stearns could conceivably go on a similarly aggressive promoting streak this year, with southpaw Josh Hader and outfielder Brett Phillips each making sense as a plausible call-up.
They knew the world was crashing down about them, and this was their way of making sense of it, argues Zelfira Tregulova, the director of the Tretyakov Gallery.
The idea was to learn how to twitch and pounce while still making sense at the piano, connecting one spasm of movement, with graceful haste, to the next.
Because of its work on climate science data collection and analysis, it has become one of the most important American agencies for making sense of the warming planet.
Callimachi: And right as we're starting to think that things are starting to making sense again —— Huzayfah's Father: [Urdu] [Music] Callimachi: We get a phone call from Pakistan.
Since the public does not know the details of what law enforcement officials are looking for, that adds a layer of complexity to making sense of the raid.
Where once the company and its community were one and the same, they're talking past each other now, both making sense, neither able to meaningfully persuade the other.
These are just a number of his confined projects that make clear his unceasing interest in making sense of the world's vastness and his own place within it.
If I'm spaced out and not making sense, or if I ask you to grab me a juice box, I probably need it in the next 22009 minutes.
NHTSA issued an open call for assistance in making sense of the raw data last year, releasing it in bulk early as way to help spur finding some answers.
Nine times out of ten, here's what they realize, it's therapeutic, and in a lot of ways it's making sense of the world around you in a creative way.
For Democrats, that means making sense of a massive field of more than 20 candidates — while, for Republicans, that means bending to the originator of this trend: President Trump.
If making sense of Donald Trump requires regular reminders that he is an outgrowth of powerful, ingrained political forces, rather than an unfortunate aberration, the world is certainly obliging.
For whatever reason, Jazz on a Summer's Day feels left out of a canon that includes Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Gimme Shelter, The Last Waltz, Wattstax, and Stop Making Sense.
" But more seriously, he said because original films are a newer initiative than their TV efforts, he wanted to "give people some sense that the investment was making sense.
In light of the terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, late-night was once again tasked with offering a response and making sense of the senseless.
It requires making sense of all the signals, like recency and prevalence in news, to figure out where to stick those faces and in what order on your feed.
Making sense of Trump's proposed tax cuts requires details he has failed to supply: He has offered no plan to address the well-documented negative consequences of tax cuts.
Last year he and Larry Englehart, owner of Ferrari Technology in nearby Orange, began the long journey of making sense of the transmission, and getting the car running again.
Our narrative engines may not be up to the task of making sense of our yearnings, and we may find ourselves unyoked from them, and leashed to someone else's.
"Final Transmission," for instance, pays homage to Talking Heads' 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense, fondly quoting bassist Tina Weymouth's blond, shaggy hairstyle and David Byrne's oversize business suit.
Making sense of it all this week is the esteemed team of Liz Ann Sonders, Brad Sorensen and Jeff Kleintop, three of the top market strategists at Charles Schwab.
How are you processing and making sense of the coronavirus outbreak — the constant media coverage, reports of new outbreaks, the volatile stock market and the prospects of school closings?
This last tradition — the history of black thought — is a profound one for me; it is the foundation for my project of making sense of my place in America.
Arrival is serious and smartly crafted, shifting around like a Rubik's cube in the hand of a savant, nothing quite making sense until all the pieces suddenly come together.
Ms. Merkel's legacy is already being contested: in the struggle to replace her, and for the experts making sense of how she tipped the scales among Europe's competing interests.
The company said its paychecks stop making sense for users with hundreds of thousands of followers who have enough reach that they can negotiate better rates as an individual.
By comparing mathematical models for how the brain integrates senses important in detecting speech, they found that the brain uses vision, hearing and experience when making sense of speech.
In this lesson, you will read an essay that uses primary sources as a point of entry to making sense of the history of slavery in the United States.
She's as assertive as she was when we first heard her on "Fuck Dat Nigga," and she seems to be making sense of her newfound freedom in real time.
Kato believing they're responsible for deaths is a way of making sense of existing in dangerous world, where deaths are often accidental and meaningless, where people can hurt you.
Pichai will also be charged with making sense of Alphabet&aposs more esoteric development areas, like the nascent drone delivery service Wing or the smart-city firm Sidewalk Labs.
But words are often involved in making sense of a picture—they can steer your comprehension, [just] as a title, a review, or a private analysis of art does.
Years later, when he would join forces with Justin Timberlake to make the singer's Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids concert film, JT would cite Stop Making Sense as inspiration.
It seems like he's just trying to explain to Iggy that he wants to directly ask Rachel if she likes him, but he's yelling it and not making sense.
Thus, one way of making sense of increased partisan polarization over the past few decades was that it was really just a sorting of voters into their natural parties.
" –  Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 26 TIME OUT: STOP MAKING SENSE Atlantic:  "Many of the earliest defenders of Darwinism were linguists who saw similarities between the evolution of languages and species.
Making sense of your company's operating costs can be tricky, but there are some cases where shelling out a little cash – if you're ready – will pay off in long run.
Aiken: But the thing is, too, are you looking for immediate answers or are you looking back and realizing that something you learned 15 years ago started making sense yesterday?
There's something cosmic about the work, both in its color and size, as if Gui might be making sense of her body in relation to the universe and to history.
It's got the added complication of the five central characters — Will, Angie, Douglas, Poppy, Miggy — figuring out how single-handedly raise a child while making sense of their own lives.
So what Astro is promising isn't just a chatbot for email, but an assistant that can eventually handle the cognitive load or making sense of all of those different systems.
That sort of narrative propulsion and cohesion can't solve everything, but it goes a long way toward making sense of stories that otherwise feel lumpy and all over the place.
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Halfway through, I broke one of my cardinal moviegoing rules — "never talk" — by leaning over to ask a colleague if the movie was supposed to be making sense by now.
The building blocks of Narrator's subscription-based data modeling tool were developed during Elsamadisi's WeWork tenure, where he was tasked with making sense of the company's disorganized trove of data.
They loft you along, their verses engaging the brain much the way that plot does in prose: as a long, supple spine making sense of a fleshy body of emotion.
And there's a lesson there in making sense of any forecast or analysis of a candidate's policies: Focus less on the conclusion, and more on how the researcher got there.
"Blade Runner" was sucking up every minute of his time, every joule of his energy, and he was worried that in his exhaustion, he wasn't making sense during our conversation.
For the event, Polinger and Tauber will screen and discuss Stop Making Sense, a concert film featuring the Talking Heads at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre, whose energetic, humanist ethos influenced Vidiots.
The convener of the symposium, SUNY Buffalo professor and Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America author James Campbell, shared this chart summarizing how close various models got last cycle.
Who: Andy Mills, producer for "The Daily" What: "Making Sense" with Sam Harris, #160: The Revenge of History For many of my growing-up years, I was a religious fundamentalist.
That's what we saw in the first half of season two, prompting some dissension among the show's fans but at least sort of making sense in terms of Elliot's arc.
And there is no clearer piece of evidence that our system is broken, no more thoroughly dead canary in the coal mine, than when Donald Trump is actually making sense.
I spend a lot of time talking to people on the front line of those trends," he tells me, "and a big part of my job is making sense of that.
Russian trolls are notoriously bad at making sense in English — a Texas secession page once eloquently declared "IN LOVE WITH TEXAS SHAPE" — and it's likely they'll slip up here as well.
Astrology is, fundamentally, about making sense of that brave new world: wading into the wide, distant sky and using its motions to predict how things will move down here on Earth.
It is another piece of the jigsaw in making sense of this diverse and remote body, and gives us a more fundamental understanding of the geological processes which are influencing it.
Telling each other ghost stories — even about very famous houses — seems to be one way we have for making sense of some of the stranger and anachronistic buildings that surround us.
So the tabloids, in particular, put a premium on getting as many short, emotion-grabbing words in the biggest font possible on front page—often at the expense of making sense.
Once you understand your contributions, company matches and the vesting schedule and you understand the taxation of your contributions, you can move on to making sense of your plan's investment options.
CEOs, like the rest of the country, are faced with the challenge of making sense of Trump's policies and actions, but his favorite method of communication – Twitter – sows chaos not clarity.
"It is another piece of the jigsaw in making sense of this diverse and remote body, and gives us a more fundamental understanding of the geological processes which are influencing it."
His support here stems from a profound, decades-in-the-making sense of political and cultural alienation that has left people feeling distant from their leaders, and even from fellow Americans.
"It's about organizing, and aggregating and making sense of [your photos] – about finding those important moments in your life, and making it really easy to organize them for you," says Dudum.
"Pete never got into this for himself, which is why he got out to consolidate the alternative lane to Bernie the moment that the math stopped making sense," said the aide.
It would certainly be understandable that after everything we've seen from JPJ this season, people might have the hardest time making sense of the duo making up, rather than breaking up.
Please be aware that even though this article includes plenty of graphics, it is still very complicated, and students might need assistance in making sense of what these various statements mean.
Maybe that lost edge in a curve is a price to be paid for a more comfortable supercar, but this was when the McLaren GT just stopped making sense to me.
One of us (Teles) devoted years to making sense of how conservative foundations helped shape the academic discipline of law and economics, built the Federalist Society, and supported criminal justice reform.
"Nothing was making sense," and her voice cracks as she says this and she pushes the words out in a rush, after all that pausing over what she wanted to articulate.
In one of his central initiatives, he has pledged to improve the agency's detection tools for making sense of the data it collects and to take a more aggressive stance on enforcement.
Making sense of what you've typedIt looks like you're trying to find Google... (Image: Screenshot)The next step is to parse what you've typed into the address bar—is it a URL?
Although the partnership of Teva and Ugg seems like a relationship formed in the bowels of Urban Outfitter hell, there are a few locations we could imagine this shoe actually making sense.
A PlayStation camera sitting atop your TV uses the LED lights on your headset and sensors within your controller (either the Dualshock or Move) to track your position, making sense of everything.
One more very worthwhile question: Is this electronics ban and the media's frenzied attempts at making sense of it just another distraction from Trump's increasingly serious scandal involving Russia and the election?
But even for a film tasked with making sense of a brain-busting, convoluted, fourth-wall-shattering epic, Arcel's take on the material is far, far worse than it had to be.
And analysing corporate balance-sheets is a lot easier than making sense of the policy pronouncements of elected officials—especially when a leader is as unpredictable as Mr Trump. Economist.com/blogs/buttonwood
But I kept returning to Ford because making sense of his antics required a form that was provisional, allowed for quick feedback from readers, and could respond quickly to fast-moving news.
And while making sense of this specific brand of anti-government ideology requires a lot of specialized knowledge—among other things, learning to decode several unhinged dialects—he doesn't mind the effort.
Making sense of these new masculinities would require an engagement with economic conditions, political formations and technological networks that may be inherited from the last century, but are not remotely the same.
He could identify with scenes of Londoners making sense of life at the turn of the last century, and even find a version of his abuela in the character of Ruth Wilcox.
"In the end, it doesn't really come close to making sense, which is the worst thing you can say about this type of show," Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times.
But behind the security perimeter, the C.B.P. officers charged with making sense of the legal contradictions created by the executive order appeared to have, in their uncertainty, more or less gone dark.
From Stop Making Sense through last year's (excellent) Justin Timberlake Netflix film Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, Demme proved himself an unparalleled chronicler of the unique energy that accompanies live music performance.
Making sense of it all In computational terms, first the linguistic and acoustic features are isolated, condensing the large amount of data into manageable sets of features that succinctly captures their important nuances.
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Mr. Polinchock described the harrowing scooter rides he took this summer while he was in downtown Los Angeles for a conference, and said he couldn't imagine the vehicles ever making sense in Manhattan.
Two-thirds of employees surveyed by Aflac complain that making sense of benefits is too complicated and nearly 3 in 4 employees report there is some part of their coverage they don't understand.
While the Senate has spent the better part of a year making sense of Russia's actions to influence the 20163 election, tech made quick work of its own analysis — or so it thinks.
But it seems like there are just certain games that get lucky and punch through the collective consciousness, or whatever, and it's just, once you do that the numbers just stop making sense.
With the soundtrack to his film "Stop Making Sense" playing, I remembered a subtle detail I had always admired: David Byrne stands on a bare stage singing "Heaven" while strumming an acoustic guitar.
This year's attractions include a panel with the Trump-bashing lawyer Michael Avenatti, Chris Hayes of MSNBC "making sense of the madness" and the traditional restaurant crawl led by the writer Calvin Trillin.
The level of person with even a prayer of making sense out of any of it would need acute judgment, common sense and a vast intellect seasoned by personal familiarity with military operations.
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Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, and whose Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense is considered one of the greatest concert films ever, has died.
In the wake of director Jonathan Demme's death this week, and almost 33 years to the day of the film's release, the thrill and immediacy of Stop Making Sense remains its singular legacy.
Their utility comes in organization, and organization requires doing things to actual data: sorting, querying, and generally making sense of complex relationships among many different data entities storing many different sorts of data.
Amazon said the reason it got into this space is to help speed up the process of making sense of health data, which isn't usually stored in ways that computers can understand and analyze.
Until now, that strategy was making sense with data from research firm Coalition showing that while industry-wide bond trading revenue shrank 36 percent from 2010 to 2015, stock-trading revenue rose 23 percent.
The following article contains strong racialized language It's been a few weeks since I first wrote about a certain white Superman—something about it not making sense—anyway, the post is out there folks.
So much information will come to light; at the same time, your ruling planet, the Sun, will square off with hazy Neptune on December 3, so making sense of it all won't be easy.
I think the media has an important role to play in making sense of science, sorting through it to help guide readers closer to science-based decisions and policies and away from magical beliefs.
In effect, we're all damaged goods, making sense of the world to feel less lost within it, seeking other people to combat our loneliness, longing for control when we feel like we've lost it.
With the goal of making sense of these tumultuous times, the series seeks to answer this: How did we get here and how can we use this moment to effect positive and lasting change?
"Stop Making Sense," directed by Jonathan Demme, follows the Talking Heads concert staging (largely conceived by Mr. Byrne) in a hand-in-glove fashion; the movie presented the rock concert as a discrete narrative.
Analytics are going to play more and more of a function in deciphering huge quantities of data, making sense of it, applying it into many different areas and then using blockchain technologies to securitize that.
Timescale is riding the idea that companies are doing an increasing amount of inserting information into their databases, which typically happen in order — hence making sense to order it in some kind of time series.
In Dick Johnson Is Dead, veteran documentary cinematographer turned director Kirsten Johnson finds herself both in front of and behind the camera, making sense of her beloved father's deteriorating memory with an unusually playful attitude.
The goal of such writings is ostensibly to better know Emily Dickinson, though by means of murky, refracted knowledge—as if making sense out of the same image as projected through a hall of mirrors.
A company like Orbital Insight is charged with making sense of it all ― kind of a Google for all of that stuff flowing into Google Earth, but with application to a whole host of industries.
Even though the writers Frank and Heidecker are witty and irreverent while making sense of both Dalí's worldview and the Marx brothers' dynamic, their text interrupts, almost disturbs the sheer beauty of Manuela Pertega's work.
This technology is integral in the development of self-driving cars, IBM Watson and speech and image recognition, as well as solving some of our most challenging tasks, like making sense of the human genome.
The fictional translation allows Fox to control her very delicate story, but also to explore the gaps within it; she never attempts to fill the lacunae where things stop making sense with evidence or justification.
Stitching together three nights of Talking Heads performances from 1984 into a single concert experience, Stop Making Sense captures the unique energy of live musical performance like few other films have managed, or even attempted.
We spoke to her about making sense of the archive's chaos, people's obsession with showbiz gossip, and what she's going to do now that the internet has just about made her collection of clippings moot.
A therapist can guide you in making sense of all you've been through and will also help you see it's likely not your brother you hate, but rather the disease of addiction that consumed him.
At that moment, however, our ambitions were limited to making sense of the song on the radio: "I was sittin' there sellin' turnips on my flatbed truck…" You have to hand it to country music.
The show gets to the bottom of his abusive upbringing, severe brain injury, and drug use, making sense of Herndandez's past while investigating what led the former New England Patriot to allegedly murder his friend.
"The biggest challenge will be in making sense of all these data," said Dawn Wright, chief scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a major geospatial software and data science company, in an email.
I don't envy showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss's monumental task of adapting and making sense of George R. R. Martin's behemoth book series—the timeline of which, not coincidentally, they surpassed with season 6.
Based on everything I had learned in the past two in a half years, I figured I could do a really good job of making sense of it and started the dog agency to do that.
The startup uses machine learning to help make you smarter with your money and to automate a lot of what Hussey-Yeo describes as the boring stuff, such as categorising transactions or making sense of graphs.
Film-makers, in particular, are making sense of a turbulent 43th century through a personal lens: "The Image You Missed" is one of many films at the Open City Documentary Festival in London to do so.
South Park's season 20 has been railing against this very likable brand of J.J. Abrams nostalgia for seven episodes already, as the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone try making sense of present-day America.
When he was transcribing letters from the board, making sense of them, he was doing just what he did when he wrote poetry: turning signs and sounds — the building blocks of language — into voice, presence, meaning.
First, the easy one: What should the Supreme Court do when a decades-old doctrine from the age of rotary-dial phones and Yellow Pages stops making sense in the face of rapid, unforeseen technological advances?
For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, making sense of videos online can be deeply frustrating, even if the video is captioned, which is now the norm (if not the law) on most platforms.
But the more painstaking job began the morning just after the della Robbia's fall, when conservators gathered in its closed-off gallery to begin making sense of the pieces, some of them as tiny as fingernails.
To have any hope of making sense of it all, we need a discerning and reliable guidebook, a work that not only identifies the most important events of 1968 but also puts them in historical context.
Mr. Byrne and Mr. Demme worked together frequently, notably on "Stop Making Sense," a 21963 concert film about Talking Heads that many critics (and filmgoers) found mesmerizing, though it had few filmic bells and whistles. (Mr.
Added to that was the strange realization that Disney was not an escape or a palliative for Owen but his principal tool for connecting with experience—making sense of it rather than feeling overwhelmed or mobbed.
But "making sense of sound is actually one of the most complex jobs we ask of our brains," says Nina Kraus, a professor and director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
After these strategies were coded into the machine learning algorithm, Tegmark and Wu presented it with a series of increasingly complex virtual environments governed by strange physical laws and tasked the AI with making sense of it.
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Demme has directed critical feature hits, such as The Silence of the Lambs and Rachel Getting Married, as well as music docs like Neil Young's Heart of Gold and The Talking Heads music film Stop Making Sense.
Those meetings, known as "Track 1.5" talks, are considered official by Pyongyang and unofficial by the U.S. The North Koreans, however, have become more interested in making sense of Trump's strategy and intentions, according to the Post.
As the afterimage of each projected photograph lingered, burned into the viewer's retina, the performance seemed to speak of the difficulty in making sense of a chapter of history known increasingly by the shadow it left behind.
Because Mr. Byrne, as the leader of Talking Heads, was an essential component of "Stop Making Sense" (1984) — almost universally acknowledged as one of the great concert movies — perhaps there's an unfair expectation for the filmmakers here.
One problem in making sense of these disputes between the intelligence agencies nearly four years later, several people said, is that officials did not caveat their emails with detailed descriptions of their motivations and rationales for balking.
"Transitions" turned out to be notes she'd taken on a book published in 1980 called "Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes," by William Bridges, who'd started out as a professor of American literature, a scholar of transcendentalism.
With cool logic, I can justify nearly every scene of ultraviolence on the show—the child burned at the stake made sense; Sansa's torture-rape made sense—but making sense is not the same as having meaning.
I have rarely seen paintings that give me so much welcome work to do: deciphering the shapes, tracking the drama, making sense of the teeny-tiny bits and then pulling back to make sense of the whole canvas.
But the copious gore, the cruel extended rape joke, the abortion sight-gags, and any number of other vomit-inducing pseudo-goofs are so distracting and disorienting that making sense of the film would require a repeat viewing.
Significant investor capital has gone into different approaches to making sense of a sky filled with drones, from point-sensor solution providers such as Echodyne and Iris Automation to drone management systems such as Kittyhawk, AirMap and Unifly.
Today, as enterprises often pull in data from dozens of disparate systems, making sense of all that information is hard enough, but to even get to this point, enterprises first have to transform it and make it usable.
These eat up valuable time that could be devoted to more scenes of the nubile counselors stripping and jumping into the lake, or to making sense of the mystery, which remains as murky as the lake's menacing depths.
With the standard deduction so high after the tax overhaul, "bunching" charitable giving – or bundling at least two years' worth of donations into one year – is making sense for people who want to itemize on their 2019 return.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of candidates, hundreds of parties, endless combinations of possible coalitions – spare a thought for India's pollsters, tasked with making sense of the country's fiendishly complicated politics ahead of a general election due by May.
Melamed is the fellow of Intelligence and Middle East Affairs at the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College and author of the new book, Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth.
Kurian at the time Google Cloud announced the planned Looker deal said that strategy – to provide tools for making sense of the massive amounts of data they hold regardless of where it&aposs stored – is behind the acquisition.
We as a society venerate self-interest and have a hard time making sense of acts of self-sacrifice, like giving an organ to save someone's life So I too was upset when I read the new studies.
There's plenty to dig into: Tirzah's melancholy knack for a love song; AJ Tracey stunting; Dream Wife rattling the bones in your head with their guitars; teen Kelora's ridiculously smooth vocal; Murkage Dave making sense of the everyday.
Overall, the BBC Trust report — which was titled Making Sense of Statistics— praised the broadcaster's "strong record" on reporting statistics, but said it could also do more to contextualise data and go "beyond the headlines" of press releases.
Photo: Michael Savage (AP)Reported UFO sightings have been declining in the United States for the last few years, according to the statistician tasked with making sense of all the data acquired by the leading civilian UFO investigation group.
Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, a psychologist who focuses on parenting and children's social and emotional development, told Refinery29 that this is a classic case of victim-blaming, which is some people's preferred way of making sense of the world.
"AI has come a long way in the ability to find information, but making sense of that information is the real challenge," said Kristina Behr, a partner design and planning program manager with Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research group.
I am so positive because if anything dangerous, if anything happens between Shauna and myself — there's been tension and all this kind of stuff — but again, when you're deciding to act with your heart, it's not about making sense.
Even if they aren't part of a major transformation, they still face the difficulty of making sense of the enormous amount of data that instrumenting the physical world (a fancy way of saying collecting lots of sensor data) entails.
Machine learning algorithms are being developed to make cars smart enough to drive themselves; that will require AI capable of taking bad information, such as an obscured oncoming pedestrian, and making sense of it using further inputs and data.
As Mr. Greene explained in a recent interview, this blending of genres was his way of making sense of a story that had fascinated him for years, but that he was not sure he had the right to tell.
Biennials are now given the impossible task of making sense not only of contemporary art but also contemporary history, politics, philosophy, economics, the environment and beyond — all the while remaining sensitive to local culture and cognizant of global developments.
Israel, which is making sense of itself, has confused our own sense of being, and the novel goes straight toward that confusion, just as it will always go toward heat, toward what is still undecided and so most alive.
Here are my thoughts: Talk of Amazon acquiring Nordstrom or Target is fun — and you can make a rather strong case for the Nordstrom deal making sense — but I'll focus on what I consider more realistic scenarios for 22.
Each state mandated its own minimum drinking age, until President Reagan's National Minimum Drinking Age Act made it 21 nationwide in 1984, older than the minimum marrying and Army enlistment ages, and widely debated for not particularly making sense.
The best books that I keep rereading are those by Yuval Harrari, and Jonathan Haidt, all of which are incredibly helpful in making sense of this chaotic moment in history, how we got here, and risks we are facing.
But others, like Zillow-gate, or "false flags" as an explanation for mail bombs sent to prominent liberals, seemed to be a way of drawing connections, or just making sense, out of ideas or concepts that didn't make sense.
Demme's last concert film was directly inspired by Stop Making Sense — Justin Timberlake cited the film as an influence when he was in talks with Demme about chronicling the last leg of his 20/20 Experience tour in 2015.
Cramer broke down and gave recommendations on 22019 names in the cloud-based software cohort: One of the stocks in the "cloud king" cohort, Splunk focuses on combing through, combining and making sense of machine data that run through connected devices.
Cables have served us very well indeed for a long time, and I don't see why we're in such a hurry to run toward a threadless world; there are still more challenges to solve before this really starts making sense.
So getting together in Davos helps me to prioritize coverage for our three-dozen columnists at Reuters Breakingviews who are tasked every day with making sense of global markets, economies and corporate finance for financial professionals from Toronto to Timbuktu.
At some point, it stopped making sense, and Staben became the first university president to recognize that those risks were simply not worth the reward, and that perhaps Idaho could make a name for itself on the FCS level instead.
First Words Early this year, when a string of primary victories established Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate and making sense of him became a matter of some national urgency, one of the more incisive assessments came from Newt Gingrich.
Still, it seemed hard for him to imagine he wouldn't eventually return to comedy, which has always been his way of making sense of the world — or, perhaps, his way of making peace with a world that can't be made sensible.
Byrne's bodaciously boxy big suit, immortalized in the 1984 concert film "Stop Making Sense," wouldn't have felt right this time: "I thought plain but elegant suits would unify us and help reveal us as a tribe, a community," he said.
The numbers behind Tesla long-distance Semi electric trucks are close to making sense for hauliers looking at a shift away from diesel that may save them tens of thousands of dollars a year, according to an executive with DHL.
The show alternates between tackling more recent documentaries (turning Wild Wild Country into "Batshit Valley," or Jiro Dreams of Sushi into "Juan Loves Chicken and Rice") and classic ones (Grey Gardens becomes "Sandy Passage," Stop Making Sense becomes "Final Transmission").
It can even interact with Trump by pulling words from a recent tweet and replying: DeepDrumpfMarch 3, 2016 Like many bots, a lot of the tweets wind up in a kind of uncanny zone of almost but not quite making sense.
In this installment, we hang with noma and elBulli alum Christian Puglisi and get to the finer points of establishing a new Nordic cuisine, making sense of his Sicilian-Norwegian background, and cooking for the World's 50 Best Restaurants after-party.
And, as great as the former was, or other music docs Demme made for those like Neil Young, none managed to match the punch and urgency of Stop Making Sense, in part because they would always be defined by it.
They scowl and growl and grimace and bark orders and grunt, mostly about things that stop making sense after the story loses you 10 minutes in, and you snap out of the daydream you were having and yep — more people walking around.
It all came back to contract restrictions, which Jessica described as not making sense for their growing brand by the time Tyler decided to jump to Mixer — which, as many people speculated online, did not mean a huge pay increase for Tyler.
"Sexual fantasies offer a space for us to play, learn and grow as well as an opportunity to process complex emotions or a way of making sense of the world around us," says NYC-based sex and relationship therapist and coach Cyndi Darnell.
It was the moment when "the tension broke," she writes, but it's also one of the most significant events of the summer of 1969, one that made her feel as though the world had quit making sense and was going to pieces.
Think of the one-two punch of "Take Me to the River" and "Crosseyed and Painless" at the end of Stop Making Sense—the euphoric climax of a film that begins with David Byrne alone onstage, performing "Psycho Killer" with an acoustic guitar.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ISTANBUL — Making sense of death is a cultural mainstay, regardless of class or nationality, religion or race, gender or sexuality; most of us spend periods of time thinking about mourning, whether from inside or outside the process.
"If you can understand the context in which why, whoever the other family member is, says what they say, feel what they feel, behave the way they behave, if you can understand why their statement is making sense in their context," Ruskin advises.
It's sweet to hear a song about those messy first teenage fucks painted as something that isn't smutty: as formative learning curves; as queer kids making sense of their own bodies (and how they change when another, more experienced, lover enters the equation).
"Given the challenges of identifying bubbles with any confidence and the costs of making a policy mistake, I believe the odds of circumstances ever making sense to use monetary policy to try to slow asset prices down are very low," he wrote.
In this new world of healthcare, computers will be a vital aid in care delivery, automating processes and making sense of data; meanwhile, physicians will have more time to lay hands, comfort patients and empower individuals to take part in their own care.
Still, understanding your family and making sense, in particular, of your parents' lives, is something that many people care about; and even if they don't, it is going to be up to them what they make of important facts about their parents.
Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (out October 12) is headed to Netflix in just a few weeks, so be sure to check out the latest concert film from director Jonathan Demme, who previously made Stop Making Sense, the gold standard for concert films.
Aarseth will use the money to fund a new, five-year research project called Making Sense of Games, which will attempt to create a "theoretical foundation for working with games of both the digital and analog variety," Aarseth said in a press release.
Despite asserting that a Cold War mentality "stopped making sense" years ago, Thiel goes on to describe US–China AI development as if it's a zero-sum military arms race much like the one between 20th century America and the Soviet Union.
Over the last three years, Mr. Cardona has confronted his family's history, drawing upon portraits, family pictures and re-creations of murder scenes to bridge the past to the present with the hope of making sense of — and accepting — all that happened.
My wife and I feel like captives of Google Translate in making sense of Hebrew-language messages on local WhatsApp groups, bank statements, utility bills and so on, but it is adequate, and it continues to improve — in particular through its camera interface.
"You can feel like that world makes sense, and at the very least it has rules that you can understand...." Additionally, right now in real life, "the perception we have of things being orderly and making sense has been disrupted," Ferguson says.
In between, he also dabbled in comedy (Married to the Mob, Handle With Care) and documentary (The Agronomist, Cousin Bobby), and, perhaps most significantly, made his first — of many — music documentaries with the seminal 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense.
From the "Psycho Killer" opening, Stop Making Sense slowly unfolds song by song, as more and more band members join Byrne onstage, and the concert morphs from one guy onstage with a guitar to a teeming celebration of music, movement, and collaboration.
Entering the exhibition Works of Love with these weapons — an inadequate effort at self-defense in response to the passage of the 2001 Patriot Act, and myriad political events since — works well as a starting point for making sense of what Dodge is up to.
The human brain is pretty efficient at taking in a ton of information and quickly making sense of the world around us—it can process up to 70 images per second, and identify images that the eye sees for as little as 13 milliseconds.
The book reverberates with familiar Stroutian themes: the difficulties of making sense of the past and finding a place in a bewildering world; the unbearably close, unbearably painful relationships between mothers and daughters; how the tragedies of one generation are visited on the next.
Understand the Campaigns Through a News Literacy Lens The Center for News Literacy offers a series of lessons on "Making Sense of the Campaign" on issues like bias in reporting, how polling works, and how to know if candidates are telling the truth. 17.
It then takes that information — thus making sense of the various data points that a car's diagnostic 'black box' already monitors — and connects you to the Engie after-market mechanic marketplace, which includes TripAdvisor-styled reviews and price comparisons for any work and parts required.
It then takes that information — thus making sense of the various data points that a car's diagnostic "black box" already monitors — and connects you to the Engie after-market mechanic marketplace, which includes TripAdvisor-styled reviews and price comparisons for any work and parts required.
Maybe I even wanted her sympathy; it's so hard to say, given I was still making sense of this strange and unfamiliar void in my belly, like a presence almost, which is possibly the most ironic and cruel feeling to inevitably follow a miscarriage.
Frankie Fyfield, a British crime-fiction writer who draws on her own work for the police and later for the Crown Prosecution Service, describes her writing as cathartic, a way of making sense of messy psychological and ethical dilemmas she encountered in her work.
After starting with a stark solo Byrne performance of "Psycho Killer," Stop Making Sense charts a subtle emotional trajectory over the course of 16 songs, as more and more people join Byrne onstage and the energy blossoms into a celebration of musical and artistic collaboration.
All of the different forms of addiction that J. Cole tries his hand at making sense of on KOD equally stand the chance of resonating with listeners due to their universality, but there are very few moments on the album that feel particularly personal.
The tools for wrangling big sets of data and making sense of the information within them are changing faster than most businesses can keep up with, according to Sean Knapp, whose startup Ascend helps companies build and scale their data infrastructure with less code.
If Democrats can offer a unifying indictment tying Republican attacks on democratic norms to Trump administration abuses, along with a coherent package of serious proposals to restore procedural fairness, voters will have a way of making sense of new examples of Republican sharp dealing.
Manning's isolation took on a new form: Hidden away in the darkened SCIF, she would work for eight hours at a stretch, sifting through reports filed securely by American troops in the field, making sense of the raw data for senior-level intelligence officers.
But at this stage in its life, Black Mirror is less interested in making sense than it is in laying the groundwork for these kinds of dramatically and emotionally resonant moments, when our unbridled embrace of technology collides with our humanity, for better and worse.
In a bid to remind people that he's more than Jimmy Fallon's hype man, Justin Timberlake had Jonathan Demme, director of some of the greatest concert films ever made (like Stop Making Sense), create a documentary version of his final 20/20 tour date in Las Vegas.
"Girlfriend is Better", the song they play during the aforementioned moment when Byrne returns to the stage in the big suit in Stop Making Sense, is included here because the group that was assembled for live shows has so much more depth than on the original recording.
Okay, well, now I'm going to turn the whole tribe against you, but don't worry, I'll still vote with you to eliminate one of the moms just because I don't want to confuse anyone by making sense for the first time in the past three days.
Talking Heads belong to the alternative rock canon's highest echelon, universally beloved as icons of quirk, and will remain so in perpetuity as new generations of aesthetes discover their back catalog and the joys of gawking over the Stop Making Sense video with a group of friends.
Overall, Fincher, Vanderbilt, and the cast make the most of their story's ambiguities, depicting the Zodiac case and the lives of the people who tried to solve it as filled with riddles and nagging inconsistencies — always one key piece of evidence away from making sense. Tubi.
The group Irreversible Entanglements is a scalding, free-improvising quintet featuring the young performance poet Camae Ayewa (known as Moor Mother in her solo work), who draws connections across epochs of African and American history, making sense of trauma and gathering power to take action today.
In line with its mission of examining the past to try making sense of the present, the Retro Report series of video documentaries recalls Littleton's nightmare on its 21th anniversary to explore what we have learned about school shootings across the years — and have yet to learn.
It's not that foodie doctrine is wrong, exactly — home-cooked meals are great, we should eat more vegetables, it is nice when families eat together — but rather that the prescriptions of (mostly white, mostly male) public food intellectuals stop making sense when confronted with real life.
A city like Baltimore, that is currently on pace to surpass New York City in homicides when its population of 620,000 could go into NYC's 8.5 million nearly fourteen times, is in dire need of music that tries making sense of this tragedy to go national.
One explanation for this could be heightened arousal in reaction to the action, but the authors of this study say this sort of time warp is more likely to be because of the close connection between motor activity (moving the body) and temporal processing (making sense of information).
Sure, I did this with artists from the numerous genres that have always made up the music I listened to — from classical to rock, hip-hop to soca, reggae to kwaito — but these other sounds served their own unique purpose for making sense of the world through melody.
Apple recently got handsomely rewarded for making sense of tech disruption, its market value soaring close to a trillion dollars as it embedded all of the themes — big data, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), internet of things (IOT) and enhanced security — under the hood of its iPhone.
Now in a new book called "Eat Fat, Get Thin," Dr. Hyman takes a deep dive into the science behind dietary fat, making sense of decades of confusing health recommendations and building a case for why even saturated fats, which have long been vilified, belong in a healthy diet.
Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ...   THE BIG STORY: --MAKING SENSE OF NORTH KOREA: The computer code from the Wanna Cry ransomware appears to copy large swaths from malware written by The Lazarus Group, a group tied to North Korea.
This is probably why, fidgeting with an oversized brown suit that shrugs off of his shoulders in a manner that's somewhere between teen-at-a-job-interview and Stop Making Sense, Cox starts our interview by lambasting the very concept of looking back at his catalog and picking favorites.
The impossibility of picking between art and life, of making sense of a world where reason ceases to shape reality, ensnares an entire nation, for which betrayal and violence as well as the "cut glass of pragmatism" seem at once the only choices and the most inhumane ones.
Byrne has some prescriptions for them and, by extension, for a United States that has, to borrow from one of his vintage songs, stopped making sense: Reach out, make a close study of people other than yourself, and please do not forget to vote in the next elections.
Making sense of our eighteenth-century Constitution in our twenty-first-century world poses a number of challenges, so it's not all that surprising that in the rush to make a complex issue fit into our head-spinning and vertigo-inducing news cycles, some simplification and distortion is inevitable.
Season two boasts a similarly enticing lineup of source material, from the 1992 presidential campaign chronicled in The War Room to the lyrical food porn of Jiro Dreams of Sushi to the seminal Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, all of which seem tailor-made for the Documentary Now!
What's made Yang's campaign so notable is how it's been built almost entirely through digital media, where Yang has developed a rabid fanbase through 10-hour-long Reddit AMAs and podcast appearances that include The Ben Shapiro Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, and Making Sense with Sam Harris.
Making sense of the side effects Weighing the risks and benefits of statins remains important because most patients are prescribed medication for the rest of their lives, said Dr. Amit Khera, a professor and director of the UT Southwestern Medical Center's Preventive Cardiology Program, who was not involved in the study.
Well, if you've ever had the displeasure of putting an e-book together, you'll have experienced the excruciating pain of making sense of any of this — it's a huge pain in the rectum, finally resolved by an elegant piece of software that takes most of the hassle out of the process.
You can either freak out because you have to stand in line a few more minutes, or realize that you're standing on a scaffold of bones, breathing through air sacs made of tissue and making sense of it all with a brain so vast it could potentially house the entire Internet.
"Mindfulness allows you to experience your life in the present without ruminating about what just happened, what should have happened, what almost happened," says neuroscientist Sam Harris, a New York Times bestselling author, the host of the Making Sense podcast, and the creator of the Waking Up meditation course for beginners.
Making sense of this story point requires that Peggy doesn't reveal to Steve that she's actually been married to his other self all this time when Steve goes to visit her in the hospital in Winter Soldier, and it requires a whole bunch of other mental convolutions to sort out its weird complexities.
"Stop Making Sense," 1984's filmed record of the Talking Heads rock group performing at what may have been its commercial and artistic peak, remains a model of its kind; it perfectly melds the colorfully staged grandeur of a classic MGM musical with the frenzied montages typifying of the emerging music-video genre.
A product of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Sentient is (or at least aims to be) an omnivorous analysis tool, capable of devouring data of all sorts, making sense of the past and present, anticipating the future, and pointing satellites toward what it determines will be the most interesting parts of that future.
In that spirit, Kavanagh continued, he and the rest of McGregor's team have begun the task of converting a mixed martial artist into a boxer, paring the innumerable anatomical options of the cage-fighter down to the few available to the boxer, making sense of a nonsensical world by making it smaller.
It's not that I have anything so important going on in my life that I wouldn't trade it to be better at my job, but it's that you can only have your brain lit up for that long before it starts to break down and you stop making sense and stop being creative.
Whether or not it was Eckhaus or Latta's decision to juxtapose so many elements under one roof was beside the point because, by look 45 — a beaded top that left little to the imagination — it was clear the two were making sense of what they've learned from each other over the past few years.
But if you take a step back and divest of what you think they ought to do, you look at the way women are processing their lives and making sense of it and making complex decisions, they're actually quite rational when they decide not to bring a baby into the world they can't feed.
So many powerful emotions came to the surface for you, and making sense of it all could feel difficult (putting things to words isn't always something that happens quickly or easily!), but this Gemini energy will help you sort all that out, as the sun activates the sector of your chart that rules your mind.
Still, when everyone convened at our campus film center to attend the annual screening of Stop Making Sense, I went too—partially because I wanted to understand this band that so many of my peers seemed to love, but mostly because I didn't want my cool new friends to think I was a dweeb.
Now, again, I could sort of make an argument for any of the above images making sense from the point of view of "there probably would be low light levels in that situation," especially if you accept that everybody in the Ozarks is turning off lights all of the time to save on their electric bill.
Every episode mocks a different famous documentary, with Saturday Night Live vets Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, and Seth Meyers (who all co-created the series) making gleeful hash of everything from The War Room to Stop Making Sense to (in a brilliant recent episode) the documentary about the recording of the original cast album for the musical Company.
Demme won consistent acclaim as the director of such diverse movies as the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense"; "Philadelphia," the 1993 drama starring Tom Hanks as a lawyer battling AIDS; and "Beloved," the 1998 Oprah Winfrey movie based on Toni Morrison's bestseller about a 19th century slave haunted by the ghost of her daughter.
For the fifth year in a row, biz school professors Yael Hochberg of Rice University and Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond have ranked the many accelerator programs now up and running in the U.S. as a way of helping making sense of which are worth the time, effort, and, often, equity that founders give them.
Though there are tons of Egyptian street anthems flooding Soundcloud and a vast array of electronic producers, sound artists, rappers and rock bands playing shows and releasing albums across the region, there's comparatively fewer writers out there picking up on this stuff and making sense of it all with a steady supply of reviews, profiles and hot takes.
It is also Sisyphean to mesh admissions' idealistic language with a university's practical goals of maintaining its tenuous spot in the rankings; to contextualize the relative strengths of various high schools, student achievement, intellectual curiosity, leadership qualities, drive, and character while making sense of test scores (spanning different regions and economic backgrounds) that are within a 150-point range.
But as we near the third decade of the 21st century, the urge to look back feels different: Making sense of our lives and of the unfathomable world in which we find ourselves has necessitated an understanding of what has come before — a clarification of the game and its stakes but also its rules and positions.
It's a way to remake an unhappy reality and exert control ("Werewolves in Their Youth"), a means of grappling with personal or historical disaster ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"), or, in the case of his elegiac and deeply poignant new novel, "Moonglow," a tool for connecting the dots of a family's life and making sense of the past.
This is where the Stop Making Sense comparison is most apt: Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids is all about the emotional peaks and valleys of the concert experience, treating the stage and its many denizens — band members, background singers, dancers — as a complex ecosystem worth appreciating both on their own and as parts of a greater whole.
When Marvel's movies talk about Thor and where he comes from, they play up the fantasy aspect of the character's story — in Thor: The Dark World, there's mythology about the "nine realms," and the franchise employs the Bifröst, a rainbow bridge that connects dimensions — and scientists on earth (like Jane Foster) often have trouble making sense of it.
Of course, Stop Making Sense, with its living room furniture and spastic choreography, looks pretty humble in comparison to our Kendricks and Gagas; you won't find anything by way of pyrotechnics or LEDs, but what it did offer was unprecedented narrative and spectacle (it's also the first concert film made entirely with digital audio technique): It brought theater to pop.
Booker used to be on the other side of the recorder—he studied journalism at the University of Florida before falling into a career as a musician—but he likes it better this way around "So what's the word count on this article?" he asks, sounding daunted by the task of someone making sense of a career he's still trying to wrap his own brain around.
The short stories bounce from one unlikely protagonist to the next — from the antique toy dealer chasing a legendary train set owned by Robert E. Lee, to a captive lion making sense of the hierarchy of the zoo, to the one and only Abraham Lincoln — and each story, despite the foreignness of its characters' circumstances, expertly weaves in such timeless themes as power and identity.
English appears on opposite pages, across from the original text, and in reading the two together (even haltingly, as I did, making sense of the Italian from a knowledge of Spanish and the aid of an online dictionary), one finds a work that's both closer to Lahiri's original intentions and altogether different, a dialogue beyond what a simple reproduction in English would have managed.
Directed by Ms. Streisand and the veteran music filmmaker Jim Gable, it is a relatively straightforward chronicle and, if you're watching closely enough, a bracing lesson in how far the concert movie has progressed since Martin Scorsese raised the bar for the genre with "The Last Waltz," his 1978 documentary about the Band, and Jonathan Demme raised it higher still with "Stop Making Sense," his 1984 Talking Heads film.
There are plenty of albums in recent years that critics and listeners of Freetown Sound have drawn comparisons to, but the record that I keep thinking about during my many repeated listens is dance producer/queer activist Terre Thaemlitz's 2009 masterwork as DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues—a record that also opens with a powerful spoken-word reflection on the past and how it ties to making sense of the present surrounding us.

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