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...technique, the scope of the film is compelling. The director inserts a series of montage images. X-rays dancing on the screen are woven amidst shots of the crazed. Gould writing in his diary the cold statistics of his medical health. Shots of a NASA flights are mixed with various interviews with people who knew Gould's peculiar persona. Not only are these effective diversions a way of introducing the musical variation of the film itself, but also they serve to highlight the odds and ends of the pianist's existence. The facts are here, but they are woven within...
...time when Charles' judgment is being questioned, why announce a willingness to tinker with the constitution, the unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will...
...wall videos that aim to recycle folks back to the parks and theaters. "This summer," says Eisner, "the stores will be geared to our new animated feature, The Lion King. You can also buy tickets for the park there. You can learn about the Disney Channel. It's all woven together." The Greeks had a word for it: $ynergy...
...prize is a crown, about eight inches high, said to be woven from the hair of holy women. The stakes: assets worth $1.2 billion and the reverence of up to a million followers. The alleged weapons: forgery, lies and murder. The contenders? Two little boys...
Tales, yarns, biographies, anecdotes, fables, government propaganda, gossip, myths, parables: stories stories. If Rafik Schami hoped to set the critics cooing over the thickly-woven narrative splendor of his first novel, Damascus Nights, he went the right way about writing it. He tells the story of a story-teller who has to have a series of stories told him by save him from a fairytale curse of dumbness which prevents him from telling stories. Do you see a theme forming" The essence of, say, a thousand night and a night of story-telling have been compressed into a single volume...