Word: indirection
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Much of the novel's success was due to the long passages of indirect discourse in which the characters reexamine their pasts and attempt to grope towards a solution. Hicks dispenses with most of these passages in the film because he does not need them. He knows that much can be said with few words, and he makes the most of it, turning Cedars into a movie about astonishing cinematography and fluid camera work. While the movie occasionally threatens to become too impressed with its own rapturousness (a problem that James Newton Howard's saccharine score does little to help...
...Supreme Court restored tax-supported tuition assistance for more than 700 Cleveland students. Cleveland, for the past few years, has permitted these subsidies to be used for both sectarian and secular private schools. Opponents of the 5-4 court ruling claim that even indirect government support of parochial institutions violates the First Amendment...