Word: minutest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Superficiality aside, though, Cleopatra is the play's central character. While other characters and especially Antony himself seem to speak in a vacuum, characters react to her words and bend themselves to her minutest whims. Only Caesar seems to know that flattery is the sole path to Cleopatra's mind and motivations...
This actress knows where the camera is: nearby, as close and attentive as a lover, alert to the minutest inflection of voice or glance. Her Howards End work -- as Margaret Schlegel, a domestic diplomat mediating between warring families, classes and principles -- is a compact master class in screen subtlety. She punctuates an argument with a gay laugh, as if to say, "We surely aren't fighting!" Just before she first kisses her future husband, the self-deceiving predator Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins), her body shivers, her hand flutters. The gestures, measurable in microseconds, give a brilliant hint of Margaret...
Pearlman and Henderson constantly underrate our imaginations in this way--they seem to think that if we are not privy to the minutest detail of the mechanics of each interview, our dull-witted curiosity will be such that we cannot concentrate on the interviews themselves...
...Finkelstein, thinking things through to the minutest detail is a way of life...
...arms of any callow leading man MGM cast opposite her, or in the mature embrace of a Gilbert or John Barrymore. She could play vibrant love scenes with just a vase of flowers (A Woman of Affairs) or bedroom furniture (Queen Christina). She could suggest regal exhaustion with the minutest shift in posture, then fling an extravagant gesture at the movie audience, daring it to laugh. She could laugh at herself too, as in Ernst Lubitsch's delicious Ninotchka (1939). When asked, "Do you want to be alone, Comrade?" she snaps back...