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Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...
...most perplexing stepdaughter is Lucy, who marries a patient, loving man. Although the couple move to Long Island and have three children, Lucy's thoughts never stray far from Momma. Each week she returns to her stepmother's Brooklyn apartment, where she complains that her husband "is not the man I married." No hint of the husband's failing is offered, but one suspects he sins only in offering Lucy no tragedy around which to shape her life...
...live shows have the trappings of rock without rock's edge of danger or (as in the case of Bruce Springsteen) its all-out emotional engagement. He's a country performer not only for country folk who want a kick, but for city slickers who don't want to stray too far from the superficial trappings of rock. He's new and familiar at the same time. And at the right time...
...addition, Tec found that many of the rescuers had a history of doing good deeds before the war -- some visiting people in the hospital, others collecting books for poor students, still others taking care of stray animals. "They just got into the habit of doing good," she says. "If they hadn't perceived that pattern as natural, they might have been paralyzed into inaction." At the same time, most of them never planned to be rescuers. They found themselves responding to a need first and the danger second. Many shared a sense of universalism. "They saw the Jews...
...hairstyles of the 19th century, and spicing up his narrative with his own juicily vernacular translations of Catalan poetry, Hughes lights up even the structure of Catalan fishing nets with indelibly vivid descriptions ("gauzy forecourts and inner rooms hanging in the sea, into which whole schools of tuna would stray and be compressed to a frenzy of foam and chunky thrashing bodies...