Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born commended the police department, which has put in hundreds of hours of overtime, working additional uniform and non-uniform detail in order to keep local residents safe...
...Oprah has to monopolize 10 pages in Time, a magazine I rely on to address issues of somewhat weighty national and international significance. Instead, I am treated to excerpts from the journal Winfrey kept while filming the movie Beloved-excerpts that detail her insecurities as an actress and her pedagogical relationship with Jonathan Demme, the movie's director. He's a wonderful filmmaker, she writes, but more importantly, he has faith in Oprah. The on-screen adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel comes to theaters Oct. 16 and is the reason why Time's editorial staff developed a sudden interest...
However it is slimmed down, and although its conclusion holds more hope than the book's, the movie is certainly Morrison. Says Demme: "Almost everything, every line of dialogue, every article of clothing, every detail we shamelessly took from the book to put in the movie. If Toni Morrison said black dress, it was going to be a black dress. We were slavish," he adds, without apparent irony. The film is also attentive to the change of seasons in the year of the story's life; the surrounding woods and streams are limned in lustrous imagery. But the whole picture...
...teachers, of maids and their amours, of complex friendships ended by fate's whim. In an exemplary cast the standouts are Luisa Conlon and Leelee Sobieski as the daughter at seven and 14, and Anthony Roth Costanza as her brilliantly effeminate best friend. The Merchant-Ivory attention to period detail often seems like the movie equivalent of good penmanship. But here it accrues a kind of ethical eloquence. These are people who try hard to love each other, with passionate clumsiness or a heroic, fading grace...
Even now, after the Starr report has set down in excruciating detail Clinton's affair and his corruption of the legal process, the polls are holding. As they say on Wall Street, the news had already been discounted--anticipated and worked into one's calculations...