Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing at first, although some "progress" was reported at week's end. Kennedy could end up waging spectacular floor fights on 18 platform issues. Said he of some of the petty procedural disagreements: "That grown men and women have to spend hours and hours on this type of detail is tragic...
...points out, "was a recognized avenue to the center of being ... 'Looking' became an act of devotion." Thus American landscape and its contents, the effects of light, weather, distance and time, were seen as the unedited manuscript of God. He had written his designs in great detail, and left his hierophants-scientist and painter -to decipher and interpret them. "The noblest ministry of nature," claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tone of transcendentalist piety whose echo is still heard among American environmentalists, "is to stand as the apparition of God." Not since the Middle Ages, when every animal...
Titanic does have a little of what the Supreme Court called "redeeming social value," though probably less than Caligula. There are five minutes of long, sweeping camera shots that show the ship resurfacing--a cleverly constructed 65-foot model that captures all the detail but somehow doesn't make the ship appear as looming as it did in real life. Jameson should have spent a few minutes exploring the ship, poking his camera into the staterooms and galleries that were the pride of the White Star Line when the ship set sail from Southhampton...
Produced by Penthouse magazine, "Caligula" depicts the reign of a Roman emperor who ruled for a brief period and who was infamous for his exploitative and deviant sexual practices, which the film shows in explicit detail...
Bowersock said yesterday that ancient historians often ignore the period of Roman history which "Caligula" portrays in sexually explicit detail "because it's so unpleasant." He added, "If there's one lesson to be learned from this film, it's that it is not good to ignore a historical period because it is unpleasant. Sometimes one needs to be reminded of these things...