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By the early aughts an older, wiser Dolours is disillusioned with the meaninglessness of so much bloodshed and pondering what it means to have so many spent matches poking her from inside her pockets.

In the late aughts, Gerda noticed that news organizations in Southern California were laying off reporters who “were keeping an eye” on local government.

Times reporter Meg James, who covered Stewart during the early aughts, said in the documentary.

After a decade and a half of seeing everything I could of Foreman and the Wooster Group in the 1990s and early aughts, I came to appreciate the essential differences between these two artistic trailblazers.

The setting was the tumultuous early aughts, after 9/11 set the country reeling and President George W. Bush drummed us into war with Iraq.