Word: worked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Auctions Work...
...manner in which the story begins and ends. Told as a flashback by an older Edgecomb sixty years after the fact, the story opens with scenes that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film in the present, it would have been much more powerful...
...Auctions Work...
...been collected they are laid flat on the bed of the press, where the text is meticulously spaced out and held together by flat strips of metal called 'furniture'. The arrangements of this spacing material form the almost invisible choices of margin and indentation--these are the most crucial work of the printer. As Hulsey puts it, in setting a line of a poem the difference between its looking right and looking wrong is sometimes less than half a point. A few assembled stanzas laid out this way glimmer like distant, crowded constellations. Then the cylinders, wheeled into action...
...Hulsey is deadly serious about her work. She feels that, because the experience of reading is affected by what the page looks like, the process of printing a book is deeply collaborative. The poet's choices and the printer's choices run across a hazy boundary, each fundamentally changing the finished product. Hollister's choice of a stanza break is determined by Hulsey's choices of physical spacing...