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"Fiddling Around," Emily Yoffe's assessment of differences between reporting in the '60s and the '90s, overlooks one important issue--media distribution.
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.
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Or consider Robin Cook's thriller Chromosome 6 . Molecular biologist Kevin Marshall works at a secret lab in Africa (shades of Moreau) fiddling with the DNA of apes to render their organs immunologically fit for transplanting into rich Americans.
Because the fiddling charge arises in the context of college rankings . In the hushed groves of academia, few things cause more consternation than an outsider using numeral measurements to gauge academic performance--even though colleges and universities rely on similar measurements to rate their applicants.