Word: detailism
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Like the dreamy teen of her debut feature Somersault, who makes a scrapbook collage of Mt. Fuji above a forest of girlie-magazine nudes, Cate Shortland has an eye for kooky detail. At her local caf? in Sydney's Bondi, a bowl of green marinated pears first captures her imagination, then a seaplane that seems to skim the nearby headland. "It's so low - it's amazing," the 36-year-old says with girlish wonder. "Must be going to land on the harbor." Then the firm hand of the director takes over. "I was wondering if we should move...
...Canberra, where she grew up, while Bianca's Asperger's brother, in whom Heidi sees a mirror image of herself, is an amalgam of the children the director worked with as a teaching aide at a special school in Sydney. "There's something beautiful about their fixation with detail," Shortland recalls. The same could be said of her own painterly eye. And her extraordinary ability to stir empathy for the souls in her celluloid snow dome...
...intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo is artfully shy of detail about what comes next, and sadly there will be no sequel. So this sunny, luminous memoir?along with the three forthcoming children's books the dying Booth also completed?will have to serve as his epitaph, ensuring that he will remain forever young...
...fiery hatred most Red Sox fans openly espouse for their first-place counterparts seemed to not-so-quietly permeate the trip’s smallest detail. Would every aspect of an otherwise wonderful city be ruined for me by this loathsome invasion? The possibility of Notre Dame Cathedral’s crucifix adorned by an oversized Red Sox hat suddenly seemed all too real. An “obligatory” visit to the renowned establishment “Super Sex” was threatened to be derailed by the prospect of a dancer providing a tantalizing performance only...
...report released by the advisory group on June 2 called for an increase in the amount and detail of information in HUPD’s public police...