Word: slicings
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...then, at times, Updike's virtuosity leads to excess that smothers meaning and clogs the reader's senses as when he writes of "the shallow amber depths where the lemon slice like an embryo swam." That is a bowl of soup...
...uncertain aesthetic premises; it contains a fundamental "confusion about truth and beauty." Some photographers, like Weston, exalt photography as a better way of seeing, while others, like Robert Frank, see it as a chance to offer a view of life as it really is, to offer, quite literally, a slice of life. Photography remains in a kind of limbo--unable to oin with painting in transcending subject to pass into total abstraction, unable to share the capacity of films and novels to capture life's motion...
...sacrifice cherished legislative objectives so long as he gets at least a small piece of what he wants. This morsel, Cohen believes, can be fattened a little year by year until eventually the legislation resembles what he wanted in the first place. An aide calls his technique "salami slicing." One slice does not amount to much, but eventually there is enough for a sandwich...
...sidewalk case at the May-flower, a tawdry blonde beckons by-passers to "Infidelity Any Style" with "Come in Darling, my husbands (sic) at work." The film promises to be "Daring! Bold! A slice of life!"--apparently a new variation on the still more popular "piece...
...film had a brief Manhattan art-house booking, and Scorsese was able to raise $24,000 for a 95-minute feature titled I Call First. Evocative of Marty, it cuts off a slice of life about an Italian-American bank teller who falls in love with a girl he meets on the Staten Island ferry, deserts her when he discovers that she was once raped, and returns to the vulgar bachelor world of his street-corner cronies. Flawed and immature in plot and structure, First nonetheless has an exact sense of the Lower Manhattan milieu and some authentic and hard...