Word: construction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real attempt to construct a dynamic relationship between characters, the strange attraction between an embittered younger brother (Patrick Marren) and a crippled little girl (Gabrielle Savage), doesn't enliven the flatness. The girl is too shrill, the boy too lacklustre and unemotional...
...sets until the smallest of them seem laden with meaning. He approaches each seene as if they were miniatures in and of themselves, and they are often brilliant. The colors are all diffused to give the stylistic impression of the earlier noir films. But he seems to construct his films like a mosaic, and it results in a completely discordant sense of pace...
...Intimate Lighting) is a junk-ball twirler with an ability to put a loony backspin on bitterness. In his pictures people strike out laughing. More important, he finds a way to make one care about losers without imputing hidden heroic virtues to them. And Writer Fiskin knows how to construct revealing scenes economically, with characters talking truly tough instead of merely smart-mouth...
...complaint, first lodged against Fagone almost two years ago but not acted on until Tuesday, accuses Fagone of using city property and city employees to construct floating rafts and to repair cabins at a Boy Scout camp in New Hampshire. The construction materials are alleged to have been paid for with city funds, a source close to the investigation said last night...
Given this finding, even the most stolid anthropologist could construct a story of suspense and revelation. But Johanson and Co-Author Maitland Edey are no standard scientists. Like polished mystery writers, they trace the many searches for origins and review the rivalries that have driven such scholarly sleuths as Louis, Mary and Richard Leakey. Since Johanson is driven by the same combination of curiosity, daring and egotism, Lucy is both enlivened and marred by a lack of objectivity. Johanson is convinced that he is now in sole possession of the truth about human roots-and perhaps...