Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atmosphere of the city fluctuates between acute tension and chronic fear. In the tea houses all heads lift from sipped cups when anyone enters. A slammed door, an auto exhaust backfiring, the passing of a military vehicle, a ringing phone, the clumsy crash of trays or pots in a café -any of these sounds turns eyes nervously, stops conversations. People do not loiter in the streets, except at bus stops and around food stores...
...real thing: actual forces clash by day and night, and umpires determine who would have killed whom. It is a natural subject for the cinema verite technique of Frederick Wiseman (Canal Zone, Titicut Follies), and the only thing lacking in Manoeuvre is the smell of commingled sweat and exhaust...
...throughout the day, giving the city a liveliness foreign to anywhere in the United States. One of the largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side of the Hilton Hotel...
...campaign that promises to exhaust and saturate, Crane has already been slogging campaign that has, thus far, stressed style over content, Phil Crane owns a handsome visage, an endless store of historical quotes and a natty wardrobe. Phil Crane is a political operator who harkens back to other days. Quoting Lincoln and Jefferson ad infinitum, he always has the right smile or the right historical quotation; after months of practice, Phil Crane is smooth...