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...maximum effect. A spotlight line such as, "You're the best show in town, Sam," might have amounted to little more than a melodramatic leer in the hands of a less talented actor; Hoffman delivers it quietly, almost swallowing the words, and the effect is chilling. To its own detriment, the script fails to learn from his example. Writers Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, journalists themselves, cannot resist hammering home their message. "I don't want to cross the line," Brackett tells his boss; Lou, at the beginning of the movie, "I just want to move the line." Cheesy, perhaps...
...with the language of age, of cloisters, weariness and Heaven. The speaker plans to enter "a peaceful hermitage" where he hopes to sit and reflect at the end of life. The third part is based on Jennens' contribution, Il Moderato, a moralizing tirade praising "Moderation, grace divine," to the detriment of "headlong Passion"--whom we assume can be only the joyful, spirited L'Allegro character. Il Penseroso, meanwhile, is characterized by Jennens as "deeply sad...like lifeless statues seeming/ Ever musing, moping, dreaming...
Just as the non-smoker is rendered extremely uncomfortable in a smokey environment, and feels that the smoke is a detriment to his health, the religious student feels uncomfortable in the co-ed dor and believes that its lack of separations jeopardizes his spiritual wellness...
...College administration views Greek societies and final clubs in the same light. Epps called both types of organizations "a detriment to higher education...
...need a climate control system urgently. Every year we don't have one, we're allowing serious detriment to this huge collection we have," says Professor of Medieval Latin and Comparative Literature Jan Ziolkoski, who is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on the Library. "It's like having a big old house and not painting it for 20 years...