Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judiciary Committee, even though he doesn't find Doar personally as attractive as O'Neill, and even Doar is a lawyer. Rodino, along with the rest of the Judiciary Committee, is not eclipsed by Breslin's concentration on O'Neill. Breslin respects their effort, and describes in detail their persistence, coordination and sheer stamina. Rodino worked so hard that when at one point the workload of the committee became almost unbearable, "girls coming to a Xerox machine in the Rayburn Building at two in the morning found Peter Rodino, in shirtsleeves, running the machine himself...
Such a repudiation of the conventions of ordered narrative development provides a ready vehicle for a director eager to present a vision of a bleak, alpine world where individuals try unsuccessfully to break the shell that surrounds them. However, the automatic poignancy it confers on detail lends itself to over-simplification of character that Tanner is unable to resist. When reinforced with an often facile symbolism, these nuances of individual behavior cement the stereotyping of sexual roles that makes The Middle of the World far inferior to Scenes from a Marriage in its dissection of a couple's relationship. Visual...
...reach the border had agreed to embargo their reports until the last convoy of foreigners entered Thailand. Patrice de Beer of France's Le Monde broke the embargo, as did a number of other European journalists, but their reports did not begin to compare in volume, drama or detail with Schanberg...
...They demonstrate once again how perceptive Osborne was in sensing ahead of the rest of the press that the President was politically doomed and that Nixon's psychological stability was doubtful. Osborne's most memorable material is a discussion of the almost Queeg-like attention to petty detail that characterized Nixon's White House work habits long before Watergate. (He ordered log books to be kept on which White House paintings drew praise from visitors, and spent hours poring over inventories of the hundreds of cuff links, ashtrays and copies of Six Crises that were given...
...Fogg, under the auspices of curator of photography Davis Pratt is having its fifth annual exhibit of Works by Contemporary Photographers. The show will be reviewed in more detail in tomorrow's paper, but let me just add that its worth looking at closely and going back to several times. It's a small show--only four photographers--but a good one. In Gallery 19 through...