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And while it's true that you can't pack as much psychological detail into a movie as you can into a novel, director Philip Saville and screenwriter Adrian Hodges bring out the yeasty subtext of even the most brittle encounters: The suspense is in waiting to hear how characters will phrase what you've already read in their faces.
If Culturebox were making a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, it would be this: that these two extremes of contrarian opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
Explicitly abandoning the brittle brightness of standard beer commercials, Bottles starts by drawing on a vastly different set of themes: simplicity, pride, diligence.
Songs like "Tango: Maureen"[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]--glib, brittle dialogue at odds with the exotic tango rhythms--are a reminder of such early Sondheim works as "Barcelona."
Degas lived until 1917, when--blind, brittle, and beleaguered--he died at 82.