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...extraordinary study in cinematography, Citizen Kane, originally veiled in ignominy, was exalted in subsequent years. The American Film Institute named Citizen Kane the number one American Film of all time, and it has long (but deservedly) been the darling of cinema’s intelligentsia. This relatively no frill treatment has restored the picture to an almost resplendent shine. Press photos, original trailers, advertising campaigns and storyboards abound, but the true treat is the audio commentary. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert surprises with adroit and shrewd insight into the film’s technical aspects while Welles biographer Peter...
...Wolf said that access to public transportation at all hours was a “necessity, not a frill...
...part to show me their characteristics (one is poisonous), but mainly because he is still a kid who likes to go out and get frogs. In the morning, one of our guides spots a parrot high in a tree, a Fransemadam, so called because it spreads a scarlet frill when excited, like the gaudy costume of a French madam. I admire, take note of the bird and am ready to move on, but Mittermeier could stand under the tree for hours lost in the intellectual pleasure of seeing...
...ever has been to fulfill the mandate of public television: to provide a place where high-quality programming can flourish without the commercial pressures that dog the networks. Yet with both Democrats and Republicans looking desperately for places to cut government spending, public TV seems to many a frill that can be eliminated with relatively little pain. What's more, TV has changed markedly since the Public Broadcasting Service was created in 1969. Back then, PBS was the only alternative to the three commercial networks. Now the cable dial is filled with channels like Discovery, Arts & Entertainment and Nickelodeon, which...
...flow of money into Mallabar's coffers, and at one point Hope and a fellow researcher are kidnapped by an armed student volleyball team. Boyd also tries his hand at a fashionable fictional device -- passages of italicized commentary interspersed through the narrative. He doesn't need this kind of frill, but when he is not being pompous, he makes his point: the chapter in which Hope is kidnapped by the volleyballers is preceded by a deadpan account of the sport's origins in Massachusetts...