The Miami Heat's 114-96 vintory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals was full of statements.
Chock full of statements -- artistic, political, and social -- the exhibition begs the question: What is black art and why must it be separately catalogued?
At a time when Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar have produced messy, ambitious albums full of statements on art and accountability, Drake's goals seem modest and quaint.
Sometimes he invented whole sources: The mysterious manuscript of Barachias Nephi, a supposed ancient Babylonian rabbi Kircher drew on for his mammoth occult compendium, "Egyptian Oedipus," was full of statements that "support his own arguments so perfectly," Mr. Glassie writes, "that it's believed Kircher wrote many of them himself".
In "Station Island", Heaney seems to accept the accusation (he doesn't answer back, and the poem is full of statements of guilt, self-loathing, apology), but in fact is released by the shade of Joyce, who tells him "don't be so earnest, // so ready for the sackcloth and the ashes.
The biographies and criticism on him are full of statements about his critical neglect, his disappointments, and his political differences with other black artists and intellectuals.
Full text of statement by Te'o, via ESPN.com.
"This letter is full of inaccurate statements about the law.
"Serving the Word" is full of such statements, which appear at first indecipherable and then, upon further reflection, banal.
Passion is best shown through sincerity, and a vac scheme application full of empty statements and declarations of "a love of the firm" can be seen through easily.
