Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"About everything I talk about in this course is anthropology, but it's done through food," he adds. "You can think of food as lens that focuses your attention on social life, so you can learn about family, kinship, marriage, ethnicity, religion, etc."
There is not, indeed, a base they fail to touch. The enemy is never particularized, so we never have a sympathetic thought for them. And scattered through the movie are online equivalents of those old-fashioned, pseudo-documentary short subjects designed to keep the home front heated up--cheerfully massed...
The stylistic choices Lumet has made with the film call attention to its lack of content. The sets look artificial and freshly constructed, and there are hardly enough extras milling around to make the ICU resemble an actual hospital ward. At selected moments, all sound other than dialogue is suppressed...
Scientists believe that the little star twinkling in Hubble's lens may be the brightest in the universe (TIME Daily)
On the other hand, it obviously wasn't Vonnegut's intention to create a fine, textured novel. He speaks of Timequake not so much as an opus unto itself, but as the final chapter in a body of work that spans three decades and eighteen books, all of them still...