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For the last decade, Lee has been attempting to craft a new kind of artfully slapdash film syntax--one that mixes jivey jump-cuts with Brechtian exhortations, that tries to build immense dramatic structures out of dissonance and opposition.
Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.
The literature attempting to explain why and how people save-or do not save as the case may be-is extensive, and the empirical research is conflicting.
This suggests Tripp is not attempting to construct a first draft in her own words following the earlier instructions.
Hollywood executives are attempting to reduce stars' influence . This spring, Disney announced that it would cut its production by half.