Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Swallow: The Form and Meaning of Women's Oral Sex Talk. And it isn't simply a coincidence that The English Patient drove women to chocolate binges and mallomar fetishes. Film-induced Sadness as a Trigger for Disinhibited Eating Among Dieting Women scrutinizes this cultural phenomenon in exhaustive detail. It takes two to tango, but, in the highly competitive circles of fox-trotting and waltzing, there is a science to Accurately Judging Success in Ballroom Dance Couples. It might amuse Dave Letterman to know about the mechanical differences between the airy hip-swaying stride of Richard Simmons and the brusque...
...shape audience perception. The film never lets us forget that we are seeing a very personal memoir through Humbert's own eyes and ears. Scattered voiceovers give us glimpses into Humbert's observations and feelings. Meanwhile, trivial occurrences in the film are occasionally represented in almost too much detail, from the making of an ice cream sundae to the zapping of bugs on a porch, as they might be in Humbert's fevered mind. Other times, the camera slows down Lolita's actions in running up the stairs, or playing tennis, in the same way that Nabokov's narrative draws...
Still, Greenblatt says Americans are not comfortable with the level of explicit detail that has become available...
...better for me not to participate in disseminating this level of detail if I was protesting this level of detail," he says...
Three weeks ago, we called for President Clinton to resign. Today, with the House voting to launch an open-ended impeachment inquiry, it seems clearer than ever that only resignation could spare us months and months more of detail and debate about a scandal we would all love to forget...