Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot let infinite detail get in the way, as in other arms talks. There should be no agenda worked out by staff in advance. We should just sit down and talk about it. The Soviets don't want to be blown up in a nuclear war; they know the danger. We'll never know if nuclear weapons have been eliminated. The threat will be with mankind forever. [But without action], sooner or later a nuclear war will happen. Possibly all life will end. If that's possible, we have to act on the assumption that...
...conscious device, like the ocher scar on the old oak that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise eye for detail, the loving description of foliage, grass and bark that never degenerates into mere fact hunting; the hard-won density of tonal structure, the blessings of silvery light dropping from the sky. One can enter these pastures. Through them, the path to realism is seen to open...
...earth, where the separate images were combined. Both landers provided panoramic views of a landscape strewn with rust-colored rocks. At either edge, the photographs showed patches of the orange Venusian sky, so colored because the thick atmosphere absorbs all the blue wavelengths in the light. In clarity and detail, the pictures exceeded the only previous views of Venus' surface, a series of black-and-white photographs radioed back by two earlier Soviet probes...
...traffic is heavy, the air polluted. No detail is too gross and no conversation too crude to be recorded. It is as if Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition...
...interchangeable. But the four strong actors who play them differ in manner and style as much as appearance, each marking out a distinctive character. Mark Morland as the already famous Richard stands tall and regal; Joel Dando makes of Geoffrey the conniving serpent his actions prove him, but every detail of gait and intonation inspire empathy as well for a tortured, constantly overlooked middle child. The meatiest role of the three is probably that of John, the obnoxious teenager utterly scorned by siblings and parents alike, and Justin Richardson treads the fine line between caricature and believability, screeching and gloating...