Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important fact is that "Oliver Twist" is a truly magnificent motion picture. It has captured the spirit of Dickens' novel with amazing fidelity and preciseness of detail; but above that achievement it stands as a work of art in its own right. Adapting a novel to the screen is not simple task. Yet when you see "Oliver Twist" you will find it hard to believe that its original form was not the motion picture. You will find it hard to believe that the part of Bill Sikes was not undertaker's establishment at which Oliver is set to work ever...
...pamphlet, Gates suggests that as a starter towards understanding his theory, girls may "but my book, which explains everything in much greater detail, or become an agent for it at a generous commission...
...long is 12,000 years? It took H. G. Wells more than 1,100 pages to cover the ground in briefest detail in his Outline. It is taking Arnold Toynbee at least six volumes in his Study. But this week, U.S. readers could get the 12,000 years of man's history in a capsule-a full History of the World (Harcourt, Brace; $3) all in 300 pages...
...Twelve-Tonalist Arnold SchÖnberg, Berg set his opera in the tilted frame of atonality, or better, non-tonality-with no fixed key as a point of reference, or familiar chordal relationships. In his huge (110 pieces), often brassy orchestration, he painted warmly and painstakingly, missing no musical detail that would illuminate a character or a scene...
...through which all the conflicting ideas of prewar France chase each other, one after another. His final word of reassurance on the French General Staff: "While we were having a drink I noticed they all held their little fingers in the air, quite separate from the rest. A mere detail, you will say. Agreed, but it's by small signs of that kind that one knows the best people...