Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Todd Solondz's celebrated new film "Welcome to the Dollhouse" brings a tight focus to a circle of hell never before examined on the silver screen--junior high. With relentless detail, Solondz recalls a world of harlequin posters, crop tops, and the first birthday parties where you didn't invite everyone in the class. But the film falters when Solondz pans out, stretches the plot, and attempts to shift from brutal realism to the much more abstract genre of farce...
...impact of Clinton's past on his present. During the recent trial of the Clintons' Whitewater business partners, Lindsey kept tabs on the proceedings through friends, relaying even small developments to the President. During the Troopergate scandal in 1993, Lindsey enlisted the former head of Clinton's security detail to give a TV interview favorable to the President. His hovering role puts him constantly on the road, where he wears two pagers and often has to be reminded to eat. His family has remained in Little Rock...
...SONICS! signs, looked gloomy. It's true, of course, that people in Seattle can look gloomy even in the off season, despite the city's obvious charms. It rains a lot, after all, and many Seattle residents are of Scandinavian descent. I wouldn't attempt to describe in detail what it's like to come upon Scandinavians who have been rained on for a while, except to say that it doesn't have much in common with seeing Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor...
...Clinton: We haven't gone into that kind of detail...
...authors have, of course, done their homework, but neither anywhere near as diligently as, say, Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear); they get C's at best. Despite their authoritative tone, these books are mines of misinformation--and not just in detail. They are to paleoanthropology what Indiana Jones is to archaeology--pure fantasy constructs. And while this may sound like carping on my part, given that these are, after all, works of fiction, it's fair to point out that no scientist likes to see his field of study caricatured--all the more so when the caricaturists have...