Set in modern-day Kazakhstan, where the quiet is broken only by brutishness, this classically shot and edited film is a spare yet entrancing tale drawn with precise strokes.
We had just trudged through 151 novels (I actually read a few more than that – 183 in all to be precise – but that's a tale for a different time) and we began the process of re-reading the longlist.
It's fitting that Lilin ultimately became a tattoo artist, a vocation that, in the Siberian underworld, serves to tell criminals' tales with a precise, esoteric symbology.
LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION (Coffee House Press, paper, $15), Ben Lerner's remarkable first novel, published last year, is a bildungsroman and meditation and slacker tale fused by a precise, reflective and darkly comic voice.
Mireille Journet, now Marokvia and in her late 90's, captures it movingly in her precise, beautifully written memoir, a strange tale of two bohemians caught up in a totalitarian nightmare.
Songs like "Giants in the Sky," "Agony" and "Moments in the Woods" do what enduring fairy tales do: they give precise but ineffable form to the longings and wonder and sorrow that life inspires in us.
The images are full of life and movement, often with a moral, sometimes with humour, always with sympathy and precise observation, so the images tell a tale as well as being at the tail ends of articles.
He conveyed warmth through a relaxed and humorous style that mixed the precise details of the game, player anecdotes, tales about his wife, Lulu, and idiosyncratic phrases that defined him to millions of listeners.
These systems have been used to target integrated/synthetic as well as endogenous loci, a distinction that is reviewed by de Groote et al. [ 1].> The function of ATF was the primary purpose for DNA sequence specificity of designer ZFs and TALEs with the goal of precise transcriptional activation, also known as transactivation.
Mercifully, Mr. Hirsch delivers Nat's tall tales and impassioned boilerplate speeches with precise understatement.
