Word: detailism
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...camera tricks. By speeding up and slowing down certain parts, the director toys with traditional warfare cinematography. The choreography runs the gamut from standard epic-movie fare, to edge-of-your-seat brilliance, to an unintelligible blood orgy. Shot entirely on green-screen, the sets and scenery adds artistic detail unparalleled in today’s action films. Special effects elicited gasps from the audience a number of times, despite some unrealistic-looking decapitations. A few good actors buttress the action, to a point. In particular, Gerard Butler’s believable performance as Leonidas, King of the Spartans, rallies...
...drugs, known as antiretrovirals (ARVs), are designed to do: interrupt the virus at various points along its nefarious journey. The FDA has approved four different classes of ARVs, each of which blocks a separate step in HIV's life cycle. The strategy is to build up a security detail of pharmacological agents that together thwart the virus at every turn, making sure that every receptor, protein and enzyme that the virus co-opts to sneak into a cell is covered...
...January, Butler-Sloss, who was one of Britain's top judges before she retired, decided to preside over the case alone because she thought that the volume and detail of the evidence would be too much for a jury to handle. She said that only a coroner could give the "careful and fully reasoned decision" that the inquests required. Her ruling seemed to go against the wishes of Princes William and Harry, who a week earlier had sent a letter to Butler-Sloss asking that the inquest "not only be open, fair and transparent, but that it should move swiftly...
...Eggers said. “Valentino’s story was more urgent than other projects that I had going on.”Both Eggers and Deng said the process was a painful one. Deng was asked to systematically recall scenes of violence and horror in exacting detail, and the responsibility that Eggers felt for Deng’s story made writing difficult for him.“Sometimes you have to enjoy the writing more line by line,” Eggers said. “But sometimes you have to use what you know to help along...
...That sense of duty that you have to a person—telling it well was everything. Just telling it wasn’t good enough,” Eggers said. Valentino explained his motivation in seeking someone out to help him write his autobiography and detail his experiences as a refugee. “This is a story of the war that affected an entire nation. It’s a story about genocide and I wanted to bring that to people so that they could know about events that were taking place far, far away from...