Word: singularability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry. What may, at first, be a commercial inconvenience will surely, in the end, turn into an artistic coup. Terms of Endearment does work off the conventions that rule more ordinary movies, but only to enrich its own singular voice. Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. Terms comes to at least glancing terms with almost every problem a person is likely to encounter...
...insane German inflation of 1923 was in part a singular event, a product of such particular circumstances as military defeat...
...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 its evocations of a half-forgotten movie genre, the aviation picture, suggests some sources...
Such judgments lose much of their potency when delivered by a narrator whose life centers around probing the limits of alcoholism and sexual perversion. Obscenities, apparently varied and clever in the original Russian, flow steadily and unendingly through Limonov's rocky prose. These have been translated with a singular lack of inspiration into either "fuck" or "shit," and serve rather to dull one's sensibilities than to shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes...
...dual-anchor NewsHour premiered the same Labor Day evening that the networks offered solo-anchor shows for the first time since 1976. That singular difference in format, however, seems less striking than two other qualities: the leisurely, almost ruminative pace of the NewsHour, vs. the breakneck momentum of the commercial networks; and the prominence given to live interviews, vs. the commercial networks' almost exclusive reliance on rigorously edited scripts and footage. For all that, the content of the four newscasts last week was similar. All stressed the aftermath of the Soviet downing of a Korean Air Lines passenger...