Word: dispassionately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this...
Although the game itself was over almost as soon as it began (Dartmouth jumped out to an early 12-2 lead and flirted with a 30-point margin), getting to the game was good enough. The Crimson had come so far, in the process creating a female hoops frenzy on...
Chekhov once gave an aspiring novelist some telling advice: "When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief." In its cool observational dispassion and fineness of construction, Uncle Vanya...
Porterfield's career has taken him to every section of the magazine, where he has produced, as writer or editor, close to 100 cover stories. It is one of the longer stints around our offices, interrupted only by what Porterfield calls his "apostasy in television" when he left to write...
Right. And then? Yes . . . er . . . um . . . At this point in a review it is customary to provide a little more detailed summary of the story, giving potential customers some concrete idea of what they're being asked to buy into. Well this time, forget it. What can be reported without...