Rather than criticize art for failing to do the things you wanted it to, why not analyze something based on whether or not it achieves its own goals?

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As they sent you off into the future, they would write you a letter, and they would tell you the things they had always wanted to make sure that you knew.

NPR: Help 'Ask Amy' Write A Commencement Speech

The Up band isn't a heart monitor, nor does it have a display for seeing things like the current time (if you wanted to use it as a watch) or the number of steps taken.

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One of the things that's different is that back in the old days if you wanted a beer or hot dog you had to hail a vendor, or a member of your party had to go to the refreshment stand and retrieve the food and drink.

WSJ: Basketball Diaries

More importantly -- Savannah, you could dump whatever you wanted into the economy to get the economy to do certain things in a very short period of time.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

And I thought about it for a second, you know, because I knew most of the guys I knew who dealt, they had nice clothes, you know, they had pagers, they had all these things that I really wanted at the time.

NPR: Remembering the Crack Epidemic

Mr. SCORCESE: One of the things we wanted to deal with the gangs was to depict head on the resistance, a blindness about what, you know, that the reality in this country is built by the ingenuity and the power and the extraordinary contributions of the immigrants.

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