Fighting off the intimate attentions of a massive trouser crab, I suddenly found myself face to face with Emperor Hirohito.
When Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle Corporation — "the closest thing I have to an actual friend," Fake Steve confesses — isn't making obscene prank phone calls with Fake Steve, he's wallowing in the intimate attentions of Asian women or boasting of having just done so.
That would have been both distracting and redundant, since it's impossible, while watching a movie so intimate in its attention to the towers, not to be haunted by thoughts of their fate.
This intimate consultancy and attention, she tells us, was the most important doctoring role of her life.
They are frail, precarious and need vigilant attention and intimate knowledge; safety and love.
Moreover, rock became multifunctional dance and party music on the one hand, a matter of serious attention and intimate expression on the other.
Filming cityscapes and intimate gestures with avid attention, adorning the dialogue with deep confessions and witty asides, Piñeiro conjures a cogently realistic yet gloriously imaginative vision of youthful ardor in love and art alike.
He gained attention for intimate, black-and-white pictures of domestic objects from a child's point of view, inspired by the birth of his son in 1986, as well as images in which he turns a room into a giant camera obscura, projecting exterior views on to interior spaces.
While the author has brought an extraordinarily important and intimate topic to the attention of the general public with his gift for narrative, he could have accomplished his objectives in half the space, with no loss to the subject he has covered.
Lee, a New York Times Metro reporter best known for writing conceptual stories that examine things like the insecurities two straight men may have when dining alone together in an intimate setting, turns her attention to the world of Chinese food in America with the goal of finding out why the food her immigrant parents serve at home differs so much from the food served in Chinese restaurants.
