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Romanian cinema has the special power of finding the murkiest, most desultory way to film petty squabbles and bureaucratic nightmares

he gives an echt-Dana quote

Every day, taking the elevator up and down for cig breaks, I’d study these murals — I’d try to resist their calliope charms.

For Obama, American interests as defined by the national-security state were coterminous with the world’s interests.

Time returns in the peroration, but in a different way: as an expression, Lincoln-like, of humility.