Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
...into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
...April 19, Bush was in Houston reminiscing with a friend about his former White House staff members and how he used to play horseshoes with them. It was then that the news came out of Oklahoma City. Bush flipped the television coverage off and on, called his Secret Service detail chief for word from the disaster area. As it turned out, one victim had once been part of the Bush entourage: Al Whicher, a Secret Service man. Bush wrote in his letter, "He was no Nazi. He was a kind man, a loving parent, a man dedicated to serving...
Mira Nair's direction is superb. She has an exacting eye for detail, and an unerring instinct for what makes a film work. She exhibits an extraordinary control over the elements in the film, producing a work that is about exile, lost love, political repression, bygone dreams, and also about blossoming love, pleasure, warmth, and newfound hope...
...subverts the note of tropical passion and romance that it initially seems to promise. Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation, and his experience-his worldliness-endows the pages of this book with the reek of authenticity: the novel is dense and pungent with perfect detail. This same worldliness provides the undercurrent of cool reality about people's lives, their impossible dreams and inevitable disappointments, that makes Cuba and the Night the most promising and beguiling of fiction debuts...