Word: unraveler
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Transforming Lawrence Durrell's massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films could hardly unravel the interlocking time structure and convoluted personal relationships in the four separate but interrelated novels. Thus 20th Century-Fox might have been well-advised to follow the traditional Hollywood practice of isolating a single incident from one of the novels and blowing it up into a complete story for the screen. But fearlessly, the studio resolved to distill the essence of the entire Quartet -carefully constructed around Freud...
Keen academicians who have traced student travail from Berkeley to Columbia to the Quadrangle at Harvard, unofficially agree that the moment of truth is at hand--if Harvard frays then the entire U.S. university fabric could unravel...
...unravel this skein of spies and spying, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-cioals-including General Gehlen and Otto John-collecting much personal information never before known. His book brings the story of cold war espionage up to date. But the struggle goes on. No end game is yet in sight. Meanwhile, The Secret War for Europe makes an absorbing spy watcher's guide and rule book for espionage-chess...
...frontier environment, it was greeted with warm applause, then critically torn to shreds. Yes, America had developed its own brand of democracy the critics agree; but, no, the "frontier" thesis was not an accurate analysis of its growth. Since that time no single work has appeared to unravel the somewhat mysterious evolution of American democracy...
...Carl Ruggles has had a writer's block that has stretched out for nearly all of his 92 years. He toiled for ages on a single work. Writing with crayons on brown wrapping paper, he would trace out his python-long melodies, then weave dissonance into dissonance, then unravel the whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced only...