Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crusades against sexism and parochialism. "When you begin to write, you deal with your immediate surroundings," she explains in the introduction; "as you grow, your immediate surroundings become larger. There's no contradiction." Her most weighty essays, "The Curse of Eve" and "An End to Audience?" perceptively and persuasively detail two of her major concerns: the steady worsening of the publishing and distributing industries as ways to disseminate serious literature, and the subtly "evil" and "supernatural" and generally unsatisfactory female models scattered throughout literature...
UNABASHED FANNAISM about the game has never a good baseball book but you can only take a good heart so for Charles Alexander is no doubt an unabashed tanatic about baseball as his detailed and trivial tilled biography of early great Ivy Cobb amply demonstrates skilled social historian and so his effort to detail a by gone era in American sports history had to excite the non-addles those limentable creations who really don't care that Harry Heilmann, the superb Detroit higher outrider goes four batting lives in odd numbered years...
...effect the emerging game had on American life. He hints at such a subject-for instance in his discusion of Cobb's tumultuous relationship with the fans-but leaves even the most rabid fan slightly testy as the outlines Cobb's incredible yearly campaigns in almost game-by-game detail...
...military forces to invade Nicaragua or any other Central American country." They were responding to press accounts that the Administration had drawn up contingency plans to use U.S. combat troops in Central America after this year's presidential election. Such plans in fact exist, but in no more detail than the plans the armed forces have drawn, as they must, to deal with an outbreak of war in virtually any region of the world...
Director Scola deserves credit for clearly differentiating each decade. From the selection of songs which range in nationality to the careful costuming and attention to detail, the film creates a sense of authenticity that captures the flavor of the era. More importantly, though the actors remain nameless throughout the film, they have little difficulty establishing and altering identities as time progresses. And while the lack of dialogue unavoidably causes the cast to overact, in virtually every case the actors have no trouble striking the proper balance between character and caricature...