Word: singular
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...omission is both fatal and curious, for in some respects the film conscientiously compressed its source. Its plot has been faithfully rendered by screenwriter Michael Cristofer, and director Brian De Palma has succeeded in the more difficult task of finding a cinematic equivalent for the novelist's singular style. Using unconventional angles, lenses and light, he accomplishes on the screen what Wolfe achieved on the page through deliciously exaggerated dialogue and deadpan parody. De Palma lifts us out of banal realism but stops short of forcing surrealism's affectations upon...
This hypothetical (but possible) selection of wines -- all American, all good -- is singular in one respect. Not one of the wines is a product of California or New York, although these two rank first and a distant second among the nation's winemaking states. The sparkling aperitif comes from Idaho, the white wine from New Mexico, the red from Texas and the dessert wine from Pennsylvania...
...faults of brevity and trendiness, The Random House Encyclopedia still represents a unique attempt to gather and illuminate knowledge in a manageable space. Any serious research demands a steady leaping from one section to another -- the bibliography is in the back, far from the original entry. But this singular book can settle virtually any argument about science, art, sport, politics or culture. Few high school or even college papers would fail to benefit from an examination of its pages. Bright adolescents, not to say curious adults, will find all they need here from theories about the first nanoseconds...
Indeed, AALARM is a unique group at Harvard. We have a singular message of faith and morality. But, where free speech is concerned, difference is no excuse for silence. That the recognition process is more or less difficult for any one group should be an arresting indication that subtle censorshiop exists. The First Amendment was not penned so that moderate Protestant Freemasons could speak, worship and associate, but instead for the AALARMs and even the ORGASMs of the world...
...abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however, is the play itself, which is both a singular masterwork and a reminder to every U.S. nonprofit theater that there remains a rich array of unproduced European stage classics from before the 19th century and beyond the English language...