Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senators sketch a deal, but it's far short of Clinton's hopes...
ENTOMBED WITH GOLD AND silver symbols of spiritual and temporal power, the Moche rulers of ancient Peru took their treasures, and their secrets, to the grave. Archaeologists studying extant murals, metalworks and ceramics could sketch an inexact portrait of the pre-Incan civilization that vanished around A.D. 800, but they were frustrated by the many remaining blank spaces. The absence of a written language meant there was no sure guide to lead them back to the lost culture...
...without a timely, common cause, neither leader nor followers will affect history, for good or ill. Wills describes 16 people in 16 different fields, from Mary Baker Eddy (church) to Ross Perot (business), who have succeeded in directing followers to a common end. Each chapter includes a sketch of what Wills calls "antitypes" -- that is, would-be leaders who for one reason or another failed to truly lead...
...while the epiphany at the film's end, as Windborn recognizes, is more rough sketch than any full rendering of a new dawn of wholeness (that sea, that night, that survey form land's ending of life's ending) these cliches perhaps more pointer to epiphany than believable rendering of it--I fell Collard's intent, even though never quite reached, makes necessary a rather more generous critique of "Savage Nights" that Winborn's eventual and, as I read him regretful dismissal...
Julian Chu is excellent as Alice's boss, Sy Benson. His manic ravings are hysterically funny, particularly when he and the rest of the writing team act out "The Musketeer Sketch" for King Kaiser, the star of Comedy Cavalcade. Equally admirable is Vanessa Livingston as Belle Steinberg Carroca, Benjy's mother. Decked out in terrifically tacky costumes, Livingston plays the perfect Brooklyn matron without relying on a heavy accent or overdone mannerisms. Angelina Zappia is also good as the pleasantly earnest Downing...