Both these intimately observed dramas rely for their raw, emotional intensity on Johnson's willingness to transgress the usual boundaries of personal privacy, tact and even empathy.
ARAD, Israel — For four decades Amos Oz has been known in Israel and abroad for two things, his fervently liberal politics and his intimately observed fiction.
The story of an underdog high school football team in Memphis, whose coach takes in a star player, it has echoes of other popular sports tales – like "The Blind Side" and "Friday Night Lights" – and has been praised for being both true and intimately observed.
Expanded from Carpignano's acclaimed 2012 short A Chjàna, Mediterranea intimately observes the perilous journey of iron-willed West African migrants Ayiva (Koudous Seihon, in a scene-stealing debut that was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award) and Abas (Alassane Sy) from their home in Burkina Faso to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and ultimately Italy.
A rural group home for pregnant teen-agers is the setting for this intimately detailed, sharply observed modernist melodrama, directed by Nathan Silver.
She was drawn to the field because she was close to an uncle with schizophrenia and had observed intimately the effects of the illness on his family, said her brother Anthonee Flynn, 18. "Personally, I told her she was crazy," he said of her career choice, "but she wanted to help".
Where IP is observed intimately associated with bone, bone removal or thinning with a diamond or cutting bur or ultrasonic bone removal device may be prudent.
Eight or 24 h after infection, wild-type strain 1711-4 was observed intimately attached to the intestinal mucosa with effacement of the microvilli and pedestal formation, which are features of A/E lesions.
The physical universe, Planck argued, is an objective entity existing independently of man; the observer and the observed are not intimately coupled, as Bohr and his school would have it.
How revealing it has been to observe so intimately such galvanizing performances as Jon Vickers's heroic, fitful Otello and Hildegard Behrens's wild-eyed, blazing Brünnhilde.
