Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally, in compressing Wolfe's tale for the screen, he has placed too heavy a weight of meaning on single symbolic figures or forced one or two individuals to represent the qualities of many, his work is for the most part a model of sensitive, sensible adaptation. It also succeeds on two other basic levels: as a movie that sets a singular rhythm, a sort of ambling rush in which with no significant lack of narrative tension or dearth of suspenseful action, time is found for the telling details, behavioral, scenic and technical; and as a work that with...
...casting also flatters. In Ed Harris, 32, the producers found an uncanny lookalike, only handsomer. The blond, bristle-topped actor has blue laser eyes, a quick-fire smile, and more charisma than his real-life model...
Rosovsky, an expert on the Japanese economy, noted that "in these times of sad economic news, it does one good to hear from the one area where some good is happening," added that he hoped he was wrong in failing to see the use of East Asia as a model for the developing nations of the world...
...similar policy has prevailed for dealing with equally corrupt Guatemala since 1954, when a U.S.-instigated coup deposed the democratically elected, but leftist, Arbenz government. And the Reagan Administration points with pride to its role in conducting and monitoring the March 1982 elections in El Salvador certainly not the model of democratic procedure some have claimed they were since the ballots were numbered and the left was precluding from participating by the existence of government "death lists...
...partners--with rich women, poor women, ugly men, handsome men, old and young, with bums he meets in parking lots at night, with everyone, in fact, but his ex-wife Elena, the only one of these who excites, pains, and motivates him. When Elena, a failed and bitchy fashion model who cares for nothing but lovers and negligee, finally shows up in the novel's last few pages, the premise on which the book is based turns into a terrific anticlimax...