Many here say the video is all for show - part of an elaborately written play - and that Johnston's capture should be read in the broader context of Gaza's continued lapse into chaos.
Mr. Chávez, 55, who exchanged elaborately written correspondence with Mr. Ramírez early in his presidency, taps a small but persistent well of support in Venezuela for Mr. Ramírez, born here in 1949 to Altagracia Ramírez, a wealthy Marxist lawyer who named his other two sons Vladimir and Lenin.
Schulz's fantastical, elaborately interpretable stories, mostly written in the late 1920s and early 1930s, freely intermingle the past and present, but the future, as Jerzy Ficowski notes in his invaluable monograph, Regions of the Great Heresy, is "a nonexistent category" to him.
The elaborately structured fantasy was written and directed by Johnnie To's longtime writing partner Wai Ka Fai, who will be present for Friday's 9 p.m. screening at the festival's main site, the IFC Center at 323 Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village.
Rarely have the possibilities of the conditional tense been so fully exploited: the entire book is written in elaborately tentative lines like "she may have permitted herself the odd grim little smile" and "he might have read them out to her".
"Bush isn't the only presidential candidate to suffer from this elaborately sanctioned lookism," wrote Julia Keller in The Chicago Tribune.
You encounter a lot of them here, and they are not breezed over: Ms. Larson writes elaborately on the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, the "Huang Po Doctrine of Universal Mind," the ancient Flower Garland Sutra and Heart Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism.
Namboku created rhythmic dialogue composed in phrases of seven and five syllables; Mokuami used puppet-style music to heighten the pathos of certain scenes and wrote elaborately conceived major speeches which required exceptional elocutionary skill on the part of the actor.
In a large hall in the Artilerie at the Arsenale, meanwhile, an installation by the Canadian Janet Cardiff consists of forty speakers playing the individual sung parts of the 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis's "Spem in alium," or "40-part motet," one of the most elaborately "architectural" pieces of music ever written.
Both papers are elaborately argued and well (or, at times, beautifully) written.
Subsequent archaeological excavation revealed three intact room walls within a residential compound: the walls bore paintings of human figures including an elaborately attired Maya king as well as vertical columns of numbers written in Maya hieroglyphs.
