Word: detailism
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...know how to take--is it reassuring that these people were apprehended or terrifying that they were out there to begin with? The New York Times took the former attitude, dutifully reporting Mayor Rudy Giuliani's boats about the crack police work of the NYPD. Once crucial detail especially worked to Giuliani's advantage: John J. Royster, the man who confessed to a brutal beating in Central Park and a murder on Park Avenue, was caught because he was fingerprinted during an arrest three months ago--for turnstile-hopping. That kind of "quality-of-life" crime has been the target...
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...
Todd Solondz's "Welcome to the Dollhouse" is still one of the most imaginative comedies in the theaters today, a carefully observed tour-de-force of detail and character sketch that will seem eerily familiar to those of us who served our time in suburban public schools. The fact that Solondz is a new filmmaker-- "Dollhouse" received the highest possible prize at this year's Sundance film festival-- gives hopes that the unevenness of this film will balance out into a smooth, steady vision in future films...
...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...