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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...
...Hispanic flash. Junior, who has stolen Hoke's gun, badge and false teeth, is just the sort of criminal throwback Hoke understands. But Junior's girl Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a mystery. A sweet cracker from upstate, this Princess Not-So-Bright is grateful to Junior for the minutest graces: he eats her cooking and doesn't beat her. She and the con are lost souls sharing a postcard vision of Nirvana: a cloudless beach, a dog leaping for a Frisbee, a cruise ship navigating the horizon. Unremarkable. For Junior and Susie, unattainable...
...pale in comparison to the previous 10 years, or the 10 before that. The commotion of the past 10 years, the new policy initiatives and the new deans, the recurring waves of student protest seemed important at the time. But in retrospect, the 1980s seem to have made the minutest of marks on the pages of Harvard history...