Word: neatness
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...such directors as Frank Capra, Howard Hawks and Lewis Milestone picked up the technique popularized a few years earlier in the stage production of The Front Page. But he practically trademarked it in MASH. And he kept using it as a way of suggesting that life wasn't as neat as most movie stories. It was a messy thing - chaos, only vaguely organized - and it offered few straightforward resolutions or consolations. To the movie moguls, that was a call to anarchy, and they rarely clasped Altman to their bosom...
...Author Daphne Oz, a junior at Princeton University, serves up a neat summary of every piece of health advice you’ve ever received since age two. Specifically aimed at college students who are grappling with typical college lifestyle adjustments, Oz offers advice not only for diet and exercise, but enlightening suggestions as to how to increase your happiness. “Go with what your inner Coco Chanel tells you,” she says...
...been a good boy and maintained this quite nice, neat little vineyard for the last 15 years and have worked--well, not me, but somebody has improved the quality of the grape to the extent that I've been told now I should start to think about a cave and bottling and actually doing a thing for myself...
...Conjuring them up among today's neat French farms was harder than on the barren cliffs of Anzac Cove. "You almost think, This couldn't be a killing ground, it's too pretty," says Carlyon, 64. A journalist of the old school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where...
...each piece had to be constructed and painted, rather than simply texted and input. You certainly won't see thumbprints on the characters, as were occasionally visible in the fingers-on-clay movies. This one is as polished as a formica table top in the kitchen of a neat-freak housewife. The question is whether the Aardmen lost some of stop-motion's charm, its humanity, when they went digital...