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This week the editors recall Scott Cook’s essay on Bruce Conner’s film America Is Waiting (1981), which was published in the magazine in January 1982.Taking its title from the David Byrne–Brian Eno song on their 1981 album, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Conner’s America Is Waiting is composed of footage taken from newsreels, movies, television commercials, and educational films—productions that each capture something of America’s idea of itself. Cook calls Conner’s films, which a...