"You learn to live a more compact life," she said.
A reworking of a TV series from the 1980s (which starred the late Edward Woodward), it stars Washington as Robert McCall, seemingly a middle-aged guy who lives a very compact life, riding the bus to a job at a Home Depot-like store in Boston, where he lives.
But within the best of him is an intense sense of compacted life in the same way that that it is in, say, the music of Beethoven.
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Rather, it's a stand taken, a thought-out position, whereby a compact with life is renegotiated and a certain balance achieved, and with it a miraculous -- even religious -- buoyancy.
Thus, information on the effect of any physical or chemical changes in the compact through life on performance of the detonator is lost.
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In fact it's perfect for a couple of days - compact, buzzing with life and stunningly beautiful, with its wide streets and perfectly preserved, pastel art-deco architecture.
"Life has become extremely complicated," says Mimi Zeiger, author of a book entitled Tiny Houses, "and the idea that you might be able to compact an entire life into something so easily manageable has great appeal".
Even a compact, Cubist still life by Picasso, the fractured image of a pigeon on a white tablecloth, comes off as a work of what one might call high domesticity.
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