When the resulting film, "Catfish" (on DVD Jan . 4, was released in September (two weeks ahead of "The Social Network"), Richard Brody wrote that "The long and suspenseful buildup promises danger, depravity, and evil, but the surprising mysteries that unfold, regarding the games people play with their identities, online and off, brush up against lofty truths in humble circumstances".
Garvey's pieces reverberate so well because hip-hop, for all of its pomp and circumstance and lofty political ideals, in the end is often as ludicrous as any other art form, if not more so.
The fact the youngster has found himself in such a lofty position is down to the bizarre circumstances surrounding Mackay's appointment last November by previous chairman Whelan.
Companies with limited historical performance that raise A rounds at lofty valuations often find themselves facing difficult funding circumstances during later rounds.
In recent speeches, he has employed lofty rhetoric summoning the national will to "turn a historic circumstance into transformative change" in which Canada will play an ever growing role on the world stage.
As Mann correctly relates, the Obamians' rhetoric can be quite lofty, but their actions flow less from what they say than from their reckonings of circumstances abroad and at home.
Even Gloria Steinem, the 79-year-old feminist, who usually reserves her comments for loftier subjects, reacted to all the fuss saying, "Our bodies are never public property under any circumstances".
Government, especially democracy, is messy and tainted by human faults, yet can rise to the lofty aims it so declares when brilliantly and unrelentingly led by individuals who, by character and circumstance, find a way to realize the decreed ends for which they have been selected to achieve.
On Thursday night there is nothing as lofty as the World Cup or the Copa America at stake but this is continental superiority and in the current circumstances the opportunity to really turn the screw on the enemy.
