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The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)
It is music of painstaking care, and the box set, with its alternate takes (including 10 different takes and portions of "Springsville," from Ahead ) gives you an idea of how Davis managed to protect an inchoate, subconscious quality in his trumpet playing, session after session.
As a result of the painstaking centimeter-by-centimeter recovery of the fragmentary but still powerful traces of the “real Leonardo,” we can now see, for example, that Philip (third to the right) has an expression of acute grief rather than the simpering pathos left by “restorers” who presumed to improve on the original.
The classification of patients by stage of age-related maculopathy involves painstaking analysis of drusen size, number, area and morphology in several subcategories.
Inventory control relied on painstaking, manual comparisons between sales records (paper receipts) and physical counts of items on the floor, in the back room, and in warehouses.