Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense attorney Teddy Barnes, Close is too conscientiously playing a stereotypical role. Because she is a good enough actress, Close can mimic with precise, convincing detail the actions of an aggressive, competent lawyer. But she is best, and perhaps most relaxed, when a moment of real inner, psychological drama is required of her. Near the end of the film, Close must confront the murderer herself. The moment she realizes this, a horrible, numbing serenity overcomes her. It is as if she has transcended hope and fear. And finally, it is as if she is freed from the limiting claustrophobia...
...report added fresh detail about Moscow's global intelligence vacuum cleaner. For instance, espionage allowed the Soviets to copy the "look-down, shoot-down" radar capability of the F-18, saving an estimated five years and $55 million in research. Moscow also pirated the design for a computer used in cruise missiles. But the Pentagon study itself pointed out that about 90% of the intellectual booty comes from open sources rather than spying. Weinberger proposed no new statutes or regulations to reduce the haul...
...that they help finance a police detail from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights to patrol the area in front of their bars...
...viruses. Under an electron microscope, they all look like simple fuzzy balls, but the precise architecture of these so-called rhinoviruses has remained obscure. Last week teams of scientists from Purdue and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, reported in the journal Nature that they had mapped in exquisite atomic detail the structure of a human cold virus called HRV14. Their achievement marked the first time that the shape of an animal virus had been so precisely determined, and raised hopes that a cure for the common cold might be possible after...
...like the house in Hanover that he transformed into an immense continuous construction, the Merzbau. The show's catalog, written by its curator, John Elderfield of MOMA, far surpasses in lucidity and thoroughness anything else on Schwitters and becomes the authoritative work on the artist. It evokes in brilliant detail the aggressive and sadistic side of Schwitters' lost oeuvre, which was grandiose and trashy but done with constructivist precision. One of his avant-garde friends, on first viewing the Merzbau's bizarre grottoes and columns (which included such elegancies as a "Sex-Crime Cavern" and a bottle of the artist...