Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Allen's filming style spoofs the German expressionist genre--similarities to Frankenstein and The Seventh Seal abound. The film is shot entirely on soundstages designed by Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
...BEHIND this conspiracy? Theories abound--the military-industrial complex, the money that has corrupted big-time politics, The Crimson business office--but no one is sure who's responsible...
...very Chinese -- though this film, like Zhang's earlier Ju Dou, has yet to be shown on the mainland. The authorities see that both pictures, about rebellious young people crushed by mean old men, abound in dangerous political implications. And so, to their eternal discredit, the old men who run China have deprived their nation of the profound and pertinent pleasures that China's best filmmaker has provided for the rest of the world. Zhang is one in a billion. When will the billion get to see his work...
Structural problems abound within this Puritan institution as well. Some students have complained that there is no physical building here like a student center where one can go to just hang out, especially for first-years who don't have house grills or other social spots...
...times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither "the mingy veneering of today's 'lite' architecture"). Beneath the virile lucidity of the prose, however, is a subtle and sensitive mind that can lead the reader, patiently, into complexity: "In Gaudi one sees flourishing the egotism achieved by those who think they have stepped...