Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FAMILY IMMIGRATED TO THE United States sometime in the 1920s. His son, Paul, doesn't remember the exact year. Sen grew up straddling two cultures--the traditional Chinese environment of his home and the playgrounds of Boston's public schools. When he came of age and his country called on him, he shipped off for the battlefields of World...
...since developed a working method that involves little initial sketching. Powell first researches the era she's dealing with by visiting museums and galleries and studying paintings and photographs. "Unless of course the film requires it, I'm not interested in an exact replica of the period. I look at the period, how it should be, how it could be, and then I do my own version," she says. Next, she scours London for splendid fabrics. "I rarely start with a drawing," says Powell. "I start with a fabric I like and base the design on how that fabric behaves...
...movie (and play) demonstrate throughout an irreverent playfulness with language as if it were an assumed meaningless jargon. Spacey's Mickey clarifies the distinction between "flip" and "sarcastic"; Chazz Palmenteri's actor-99.44 percent consisting of repressed fury--seeks some solace in the exact conceptual phrasing of "karma"; and then there's Eddie's kabbalistic Merriam-Webster romp. Some bits are even a little reminiscent of a Coen screenplay, the way the guys repeat and throw this or that phrase around like an exotic football...
...pursuit of his sourdough, $70,000 to be exact, he endures so much pain that even the most cold-hearted viewer breaks down and begs for Gibson's forgiveness at the mere thought of not loving the movie. It seems that greedy little Mel wants it all, the dough and the doo-doo to boot. Whereas some actors employ pathos and ethos to panhandle Oscar gold, Gibson aims straight for the gut, which goes to show that even metal buckles at a de-entrailed man's blood-curdling cry for freedom...
...Will Paton), newly returned from his trip to Valparaiso, Chile. He becomes an instant celebrity, telling his story to vacuous interviewer after vacuous interviewer. Majeski is a wonderful subject: he always tells the story with the same words, with, as he later notes, "the same thoughtful pauses in the exact same places." He leaves nothing uncovered; his obsessive wife Livia (Caroline Hall) happily joins the circus, offering reporters intimate details about their life and marriage. The reporters eat it up: Livia boasts that Michael has done "65 interviews in four days and three-and-a-half cities." Michael soon quits...