Word: leafless
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...inversion of the Christmas fable. "Alert but Not Alarmed" sees households issued with intercontinental ballistic missiles by the government. These sit in backyards for so long that people take to decorating them and using them as kennels or toolsheds (one illustration shows them as a bright garden of strange, leafless trees under a perfect blue sky). In "Eric," the cultural otherness of a foreign exchange student is given embodiment as a tiny two-dimensional creature with a leaf for a head...
...family belongings. The box contains the flag that had draped her husband's casket six years ago. It is an ironic coincidence, a reporter's happenstance, brought about by a random turn down a neighborhood street that looks like so many others on the island - lifeless homes with leafless, saltwater-poisoned trees, battered fences hung with soggy towels, shattered windows, and front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water-laden, useless, even dangerous from soaking in the diseased stew, and hung about with the smell of decay. Perhaps...
...real life by his proclivity to tell amusing anecdotes on the talk show circuit, is convincingly portrayed. Capote’s big-city style, complete with overbearing manner and designer clothing is a stark contrast to the people and the Kansas landscape, full of long, barren shots, leafless trees, and overcast skies. He is the center of attention, not the murders, but the audience doesn’t mind as Capote’s quips break the tension.Despite a tremendous rookie effort (Miller has one documentary and a slate of TV commercials to his name; writer Dan Futterman, making...