Word: complexing
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...time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs at the end of the movie Magnolia came on like a cathartic, physical manifestation of all the character's exploding emotions, the big payoff in Tricked just seems contrived. After taking pains to present a messy, complex life-like structure, it resolves into a conventional wrap-up where the bad get punished, the lovers unite and the world is set "right" again. Given its title, Tricked seems to be exploring the ways we trick others, and ourselves, but the structure of the book has little to do with...
...entrance to the place is one thing (giant, portentous limestone chunks), the inside quite another (vast, airy volumes), and the rear (a huge, mirrorized steel plate) still another. Out back, a 60-ft. ramp projects uselessly and wonderfully up into the sky. With its impeccable detailing and rich, complex plan, the building reinvigorates the idea of the modernist villa...
...short films sponsored by the 17th Annual Boston Jewish Festival. “Out of fragments, films of bodies in a domestic space, there was resonant public history,” Child says of the process of devising the film. “I wanted to trace this complex: at once biographical and fictive, detective and psychological.” Perhaps one of the most interesting things about the new film is that it features music by noise-jazz pioneer John Zorn. “He is a friend and colleague...
...tell you to go ahead and root for Bartlet because, not only is he the better man, but he’s going to win, too. As each new episode brings us closer to “election day,” we’re seeing a more complex, more mature West Wing, but one with no clear narrative resolution in sight. Whether or not “The West Wing” returns for an eighth season, the show’s loyal viewers have invested too much in the political future of the faux-United States...
...It’s something that’s really on the table now,” said Alex S. Jones, director of the KSG’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, in regards to the media’s complex relationship with the war in Iraq. “I’m just exasperated by the lack of good coverage,” Massing said in his speech. “I think that the thinness of that coverage reflects the general lack of familiarity that journalists have with the region...