Word: detailism
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...loss of Indochina was a great embarassment to us." Later, Song bids Gallimard fairwell at the train station as she leaves to give birth to their fictive child. She tells him, "I will return three months after the birth of our son, as is my people's custom"--a detail she presumably would have let him in on earlier. And when the words "Paris 1968" flash onscreen, the filmmakers ensure that anyone a little rusty on their French history won't be left drifting long. Within moments, a drunk conveniently enters to explain, "There's Communist students rioting everywhere!" Screenwriting...
During his months in Europe, Merrill falls in and out of love with three Americans, and in and out of crushes on the natives. Merrill explicates these loves and jealousies in sometimes interesting detail: when two objects of his admiration showed up together at an opera, he writes, "pangs reserved exclusively for the gay shot through me--I was jealous of both parties at once." "My good fortune," Merrill also writes," was to stay in one place while the closet simply disintegrated." For many, the most interesting aspect A Different Person will be its recording of a rich, moderately open...
...book denies some things, it remembers all -- helpful if you are forever on display and on trial. In vivid detail (Mussolini looks "like a Caruso in uniform"), the book unfolds with the archetypal figures and engorged emotions of silent films ("You must be my mistress," Goebbels implores; "I need you -- without you my life is a torment!"). A fascinating political and personal history, the book could make an enthralling movie...
...police detail was paid approximately $27,000 a week to guard the prince, according to a Crimson estimate at the time. And two department sources said then that the police department's criminal investigation division, which was then directed by Murphy, was depleted by the commitment required for the detail. Several members of the investigation unit were part of the detail...
Murphy, who the prince reportedly referred to as "Uncle Larry," took vacation time to help work on the lucrative detail. Sources say Murphy received a "substantial gift" from the prince at the end of his stay...