Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...
...decided to life the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. The White House brain trust erroneously believed such a policy could work but realistically calculated that the political backlash from farmers would be too great to maintain the ban. No such qualms sidetracked the Administration in its attempt to detail the Israel appropriations bill. Maybe the socalled "Jewish Lobby" on Capitol Hill isn't as powerful as some would have us believe...
...main ones (a parallel text, as it were) is Indian miniature painting, of which he has long been a collector. The jeweled colors and flattened space of the court miniature, the way it filters all natural detail in order to preserve it within the twining conventions of artifice, and above all the sense it provides of looking past the edge of the ordinary world into a privileged domain-all this is echoed and modified in his own small paintings...
...single flaw spoils the film--the character actors perform up to par, the French countryside is breathtaking, and Marie's development proceeds with innocuous charm. Yet Morreau gets so caught up in every little detail of Marie's summer experience that her film begins itself to seem a little adolescent...
...with Carter's very practical role in what was unquestionably his greatest foreign policy success: the 1978 Camp David treaty. Justifiably proud of bringing Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the bargaining table for their historic agreement, Carter describes Camp David in far more detail than any other event or issue in the book. And not surprisingly, his account is by far its most captivating and dramatic section...