Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THESE DAYS comedies of manners are out of favor, especially those that are deliberately artificial. Jules and Jim gets by because of its apparent faithfulness to lifelike detail and incident. But Truffaut's favorite pastime is to manipulate his audiences. Forcing us to identify with his characters, he hides an attitude toward their actions that shapes our feelings. Ophuls' attitude is continuously present near the surface of La Ronde, constantly making itself felt when the relations between his characters change. And Ophuls judges right. Given the lightness of his characters-any one of whom one sees for a maximum...
...three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other letters indicates certain gaps in Jackie's well-known attention to detail: "His shoe size is 10 C. So perhaps you will know what size socks to give...
...refused, however, to specify the timetable in detail or to announce a time limit to U.S. presence in Vietnam. Nor did he announce any further troop cutbacks for the immediate future...
Since 1959 the Center has regularly published an annual report of 50-100 pages, which describes in detail its research and other activities, shows its expenditures and main sources of income, and summarizes the background of all members and associates of the Center. Anyone interested in further information about the Center and its activities may obtain copies of these reports...
...their eyes adjusted to the darkly inked surfaces, changes in detail emerged. And eventually a row of five landscapes neatly placed on the wall, like copies of a photograph, dissembled before the viewers into individual images, each with its own mood. It became clear that without changing the basic design, an artist can adjust the components of ink paper or line and produce an image of different quality...