Word: detailism
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...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 account of a very special time and place will have to serve as an epitaph, along with the three forthcoming children's books the dying Booth also completed, ensuring that he will remain forever young...
...sharpest post-Ring cycle is Ju-on, two features on video and two on film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. They detail the mischief that awaits anyone entering a house haunted by the ghosts of a man, his murdered wife and his son Toshio. The Ju-on series is a superbly orchestrated symphony of fear. A girl crawls under bedsheets to escape the wraiths and feels a tug on her leg; she lifts the covers to see a grimacing ghoul, climbing closer...
...Greengrass, is about two seconds long, and though that style keeps the viscera pinging, the underwhelmed mind eventually starts wandering. It is never allowed to settle sympathetically on Jason?s lack-of-identity crisis. And frankly, it never quite recovers from a critical event (which we won?t detail here) in its first 20 minutes, which deprives the movie of some of its foundation. The Bourne Identity was more grounded in some sort of felt reality. Jason might not have remembered exactly who he was, but he was consistently reminded, and so were we, of what he was struggling...
Kerry also met head-on Republican claims that his views on important issues have been inconsistent, suggesting that his evolving positions reflect an intellectual, detail-conscious approach...
...lately Archer, among others, has begun to view Riversleigh as more than just a portal into the ancient past. It is also, he believes, a harbinger. In stunning detail, Riversleigh chronicles a collapse in Australia's mammal diversity in the past 25 million years. Archer warns that if humans don't stop abusing the earth and "incarcerating our precious biotas in reserves that are demonstrably too small to sustain them," we could jeopardize our survival as a species. Alarmist? Keep in mind, he suggests, that the average mammalian species hangs around for 5 million years; Homo sapiens has been around...