"Joy Division," directed by the music-video veteran Grant Gee and written by the author and critic Jon Savage, takes a panoramic approach, combining archival footage with revealing interviews of firsthand observers and Mr. Curtis's surviving bandmates, who went on to form New Order.
Here, citizens had firsthand experiences of the energy transition.
Indeed, for all Hayden's historical research and despite his delicately handled account of the painful birth of the contemporary "peace process" in Northern Ireland -- much of which he witnessed firsthand as a human rights observer -- this is primarily and unapologetically a work of the poetic imagination.
Every patient has a unique trajectory, erratic and unpredictable; often, an observer must have seen firsthand where patients have been to guess where they are going.
Olivia Diaz, 37, has observed that firsthand.
Michael Mulgrew, the United Federation of Teachers president, said he saw in the independent observer an opportunity for teachers to show firsthand that they can teach, or as he put it, "to do an appeal right there in the classroom".
Another observer noted that few American architects knew anything firsthand about Taniguchi's serene, textbook modernism -- which might work to his advantage.
Perpetually outside and just a little above, Michael is aware of the pathetic yet touching failings that mark everyone else — the people who live and feel firsthand, without the self-awareness of a theoretical and creative observer such as Michael (or Kaufman), but also with greater authenticity and truer humanity.
Perpetually outside and just a little above, Michael is aware of the pathetic yet touching failings that mark everyone else the people who live and feel firsthand, without the self-awareness of a theoretical and creative observer such as Michael (or Kaufman), but also with greater authenticity and truer humanity.
