Perhaps what gives "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" its particular intimacy is that it isn't just a dream of a movie, it's a movie about a dream.
But in Britain we have followed the recent history of South Africa with particular intimacy, with many British people closely tied to or implicated in it through family or emigration or investment or political involvement on one side or the other.
The limits of that particular intimacy became apparent when the vendor suddenly stopped showing up, without explanation, one day this fall, and Mr. O'Shaughnessy realized he had no idea how to track him down — he did not even know the fruit man's name.
"I remember rehearsing a particular scene that required great intimacy between two of the characters," Daniel says.
"Tenement intimacy" leads to a particular kind of female solidarity and shared experience, complete with intense rivalries.
Some women, in particular, leave themselves emotionally vulnerable by investing too much hope in a particular potential mate, or after physical intimacy with someone.
The subtext of "Mad Dogs" is all about male friendship, and how hard it can be for the men in a particular social circle to maintain emotional intimacy when they can't escape their desire to compete with and dominate each other.
It's a particular kind of urgency, one born of intimacy.
The opening sequences of this often charming roman à clef bring out Buckley's strengths as a writer, in particular his intimacy with Washington, that weird, twilit place where sex meets bureaucracy and finite power corrupts finitely.
Mr. Als is superb on why gay men so took to Dean, how their mutual attraction was based on language of a particular kind, "language as a tool to obscure intimacy and enforce distance".
