In its razor-sharp examination of a culture still clinging to their 8-bit glory days, it may be a truly brilliant work of social commentary.
The movie, from 1970, shows its age, and Sautet's portrait of prickly love cannot compare with Godard's far sharper examination of Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot in "Contempt," made seven years earlier.
The other finalist was David George Haskell's "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature," a sharp-focus examination of a square meter of old-growth forest in Tennessee.
With the startled look of a man unaccustomed to sharp examination, Lehman's chief executive, Richard Fuld, clashed bluntly with the chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman, on Capitol Hill.
In sharp contrast, an examination of samples obtained from both the control and the DEX+DAU groups revealed a comparable morphological picture, with only subtle differences observed.
Rheological examinations show a sharp reduction of complex viscosity for the latter system at 10 wt% terpolymer which is ascribed to the micelle formation in the bulk phase.
The HBO-limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, a contemplative examination of a sharp-edged school teacher and her relationships dominated the awards Sunday night, winning six trophies in the limited series, movie or dramatic special categories.
On the basis of a more extensive examination of genomic regions surrounding the four candidate genes we found a sharp decrease of LD (r<0.2 within 1 cM) in all but one flanking regions.
In the last two months every performer with a BMG Classics contract has come under much sharper scrutiny, with an intensive examination of recording schedules and of profits and losses, the music executives said.
