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...Manny sold these advanced ideas through a seductive, daunting prose style that left the alert reader exhausted and grateful. Much of it is collected in the you-must-order-it-now collection, Negative Space, first published in 1971 and reissued in expanded form in 1998. It's essential for anyone who has ever been to a movie or read a word of English. You'll learn how films should be seen, and how the language can be twisted, refined, expanded, improved, undercut, remade. (The frustrating news is that Negative Space represents only a small fraction of the Farber canon...
...girlie mag thought of Manny's column. He certainly wasn't trying to ingratiate himself with them; his prose was as gnarly as ever. Sample lead sentence: "What is interesting about the Cultural Exposition [Explosion?] is that while the public has become cognizant of the geniuses in each art form, the works themselves have been losing their identity as painting, TV comedy, or film." Maybe the Cavalier clientele really read it for the articles...
...many of 47% of colorectal surgeons agreed that their patients should avoid nuts and popcorn. But Strate says the notion that these "abrasive foods" exacerbate diverticulosis is simply "an evolved theory" founded on a belief that nuts and seeds can lodge in the diverticula, the pouches or bulges that form in weak parts of the colon wall, and give the disease its name...
...gentle crafts of acting, of sculpting witty dialogue, of a director's subtle sense of where to lead the camera and the audience may be in decline, but the second-unit guys and stuntmen and CGI wizards are at the top of their game. It's not the highest form of the seventh art, but it is one of the original definitions of the medium to make cinema kinetic, to make movies move...
...booby-trapped. Manhole covers may explode as the cons drive over them; guards with machine guns open fire at Hennessey's command; one car gets napalmed. It's like al Qaeda at Daytona. Naturally, several of the participants, racing careers are ended prematurely - beheading is the movie's favorite form of early retirement - which forces competing drivers to become occasional allies, as when Ames and Machine Gun Joe "play a little offense," teaming up to demolish one of Hennessey's fire-spewing trucks. Round and round they go, till... but by now you know the heroes and villains...