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...would expect the sound quality to differ quite perceptibly between the sections recorded at one location versus another, but there are no such abrupt signposts, which earns my praise for the sound engineers...
...director manages to retain much of Havel's opening, substituting effective lighting design for Havel's curtain (in the script, the opening has two false starts, each cut off by an abrupt curtain), and the dramatic opening acquaints us intimately with the chilling instability of Professor Leopold (Ian Lithgow...
...True Lies" is a actually an action movie with a sub-movie grafted into the middle. You can see the French movie-based part--and you can see when it suddenly jerks back to the action movie. Not off-putting--just a bit abrupt. (It goes from Jamie Lee Curtis licking the bedpost to terrorists bursting...
...past, such abrupt shocks were observed in industrial societies only during wartime," notes Nicholas Eberstadt, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Writing in the National Interest, a foreign affairs quarterly, he warns that the crisis threatens to undermine the East's struggle to build free and stable societies: "Adjustment to life after communism is proving not just difficult but positively traumatic throughout the entire former Soviet bloc...
Next month, as he departs to become provost of the University, he leaves a school on the mend but not fully recovered from a series of abrupt leadership changes and its own too-rapid expansion in the 1980s...