Reenforce

Serious and varied, these stories are written in a fluent, often notional style, a sheen which sometimes reenforces and sometimes blurs their meaning and force.

“Tai Chi Alpha Tala” was a collaboration for a woma going through motions, from Tai Chi Chuan, the Chinese martial art, with her resultant alpha brain waves transmitted by FM to a synthesizer, triggering preset pentatonic responses, and a tabla player echoing and reenforcing the resultant rhythms.

The slip reenforced the basic idea he seemed to be conveying: that the names of the players mattered less than the fact that they were all now playing on his “team.”

The order, which effectively halts the display of the flag virtually anywhere in Iraq, except the United States Embassy, said that flying the flag on buildings in Iraq would only reenforce the anti-American message that the military was "here to oppress the Iraqis."