Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indoor market in the center of town. Amidst the whirl of reeling flies and screaming children, individuals bargain for just-killed, unplucked chickens and freshly-baked pan dulce (sweet bread) and giant bags of beans. Young street boys who want to sell you candy or shine your shoes approach you continuously. You see indigenous women dragging overflowing bundles of produce, while they have babies strapped to their chest and suckling at the breast...
...example, she taught him how to find and exploit zones of privacy, how to build an invisible barrier around himself when in public. It was a technique he might apply at the Xenon disco, where he hung out in the late '70s: first, use personal radar to sense the approach of a stranger, then move subtly until your back is turned to the person--a way of saying "Please, leave me alone, please." But if someone breached the barrier anyway, John would then be unfailingly polite, using the Kennedy charm until he could break free. Just like Jackie...
...Sebastian to mirror many independent domestic projects in poor recording quality, sloppy production and slackerly filler material. Instead, lyrics and music form an almost hyper-aesthetic experience--carefully produced, with fine-tuned instrumentation and clever lyrics. The singer Stuart Murdoch softly whispers phrases about the uncertain nineties with an approach reminiscent of the '70s poet-singer Nick Drake. The instrumentation includes a trumpet, cello, flute and beautiful keyboard that unite in complex harmoniousness...
Indeed, as in most of his films, his characters here are nothing more than props. And while such an approach worked wonders in 2001, A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove, here it's an unforgivable error. In Eyes Wide Shut, sex is so unerotic, so frigid, so unfulfilling that the story exists as a two-dimensional vision of perversion and nothing more...
...this: bats that bite are twice as likely to carry rabies as bats that don't. Just like infected raccoons and other animals, rabid bats act aggressively and lose their natural fear of humans. The message? Stay away from the critters--especially if they stand their ground when you approach...