The word rumination has appeared in 31 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 29 in “Bob Dylan on Film: A Guide to the Movies’ True Shapeshifter” by Alissa Wilkinson. The article mentions Martin Scorsese’s movie “No Direction Home,” a 2005 recounting of Dylan’s life between his arrival in New York in 1961 and the motorcycle accident that nearly ended his life five years later:
Full of archival footage and interviews — including with Dylan himself — the film is comprehensive and sometimes meditative. It’s a rumination on what Dylan meant then and means now.
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