My Day

 

 

I was always a little creeped out by this music - when we studied Ravel in music history class, I remember he told everyone that he wrote it as an experiment in sound... that there was no musical development to the piece... and so he was astounded that it became so popular.  Strangely, as I watched the computerized animation of the morphing of one presidential portrait to the other, I saw (even though there are remarkable differences between the historical characterizations of the men being portrayed) little or no "development" in the American ideal of male authority. Did you?  The photographic style of Carter's portrait made his stand out a little (along with his unstaged smile). But it is indeed Obama's portrait that seems different to me because of his very warm and welcoming smile.