Word: compendium
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...certain strain involved in turning Donald and his criminal opponent into allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture of urban gallantry and paranoia in his first feature...
...heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only an entertaining narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...
...circumstance, and historical moment, each man is a package of variables impossible to duplicate. His birth, his parents, his siblings, his food, his home, his school, his economic and social status, his first job, his first girl, and the variables inherent in all of these, make up that mysterious compendium, personality--which then combines with another set of variables: country, climate, time, and historical circumstance. Is it likely, then, that all these elements will meet again in their exact proportions to reproduce a Moses, or Hitler, or de Gaulle, or for that matter Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed...
...blatantly adopted some of the newcomer's selling points. The Austin American-Statesman is now splashed with color, rivaling USA Today's crisp photographs and streamlined graphics. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution imitated USA Today's national weather map, the Miami Herald its state-by-state compendium of news notes. The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune boosted sports coverage. Says Tribune Editor James Squires: "I see sports as USA Today's main draw...
...Dick does not fail to deliver. Leaders, a compendium of his reminiscences and musings on statesman he has known, irritates because it is self-servicing, sketchy, and often trite. More often than not, Nixon's attempt to regurgitate and refine his staunchly...