It made an arthouse star of Soderbergh and a heavyweight of his backer, Harvey Weinstein, whose studio, Miramax, would come to define quality American cinema over much of the next decade and, perhaps, help to destroy it too (read Indiewire's excellent piece on sex, lies for more on its legacy).
For cities shadows present both a technical challenge – one that can be modelled in 3D and measured in "theoretical annual sunlight hours" lost – and an ethereal one, changing the feeling of space and the value of property in ways that are hard to define.
Historical amnesia is certainly liberating – so liberating that America is once again diving into free fall, unmoored by any critical or intellectual insight into its own myths, or even into the histories of the debates that we think define our moment.
She delivers certain lines with relish – when she tells her would-be suitor Gabriel Oak: "I hate to be thought men's property" and, when faced with another, William Boldwood, she murmurs pointedly: "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs".
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She is fascinated by the intimacy and frailty of human relations, and tries not to categorise or define those experiences.
Both define politics not as the art of the possible but as a moral crusade in which compromise is a cosy euphemism for lack of principle.
The physical and mental state of politicians was a keenly-debated issue at Hay this weekend, as alienation continues to define the political discourse.
At stake – according to Israeli analysts – are a handful of seats that many believe could define the outcome of an election too close to call.
But, slowly, his struggle against rules and mindless power grew to define him.
"There's often a tendency to define a strategy with a large amount of money to it and then go and try and find out how you're actually going to spend that money.
