Word: detailism
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...tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast, there is a handsome geometric austerity to the way Zwick and his director of photography, John Toll, show court life and intimate life in a Japan trembling on the brink of modernity...
...Israel lost one percent of its population in a genocidal war that was conducted by many of Hitler’s deputies. You can never forget the close association between the Palestinian leadership and the Nazi cause,” he says, reiterating a point expressed in far greater detail in his most recent book, The Case for Israel. Still he says that in an appropriate celebration of Israel’s independence, “you do it with a sense of sadness about the deaths and dislocation it caused...
...sense anyway. They don't emphasize the substantive matters that define one as liberal or conservative--tax policy or affirmative action or abortion. If you are reading or tuning in, your convictions are a given. What you want, apparently, is to be told--at Wagnerian volume and in Proustian detail--what a bunch of S.O.B.s the other guys...
While delivering a nationally televised speech in parliament last week, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak broke out in a sweat, coughed, staggered and slumped over as his security detail rushed forward to help him. Senior Egyptian sources confirmed to TIME that Mubarak's collapse, as the government maintains, came during a bout...
...word of warning, however: with everything from the Tuscan hills to Ipanema beach listed in loving detail, reading 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is not going to be easy if you're deskbound?before you open it, ensure your passport and credit card are in working order...