Of course, you can simply enjoy " A Very Long Engagement " on its own terms, as a clever detective story, tirelessly imaginative, fussily composed and as cold as a December night in a trench on the Western front .------ A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT 2 1 / 2 stars ( R : violence, sexuality ) Starring : Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel.
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Of course, if Jefferson Davis had allowed the brightest minds under him ( most notably Judah P . Benjamin on the civilian side and Robert E . Lee on the military side ) full scope to exercise their talents-- instead of fussily trying to micromanage things, as he so often did-- then probably the Confederate cause would have been more successful over a longer period . . . AnonMoos 04 : 08, 3 September 2007 ( UTC)
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This includes advice on hiring a rubout artist ( " I figured finding a good hit man was like finding a good plastic surgeon : you discreetly extracted his name from a friend who had used him with successful results " ) and describing a couple who get it all wrong in a sprawling duplex in the second-most-fashionable building on Fifth Avenue . ( " The apartment, whose grand, boxy entertaining rooms overlooked Central Park, was fussily decorated with gaudy French furniture and 19th-century oil paintings of Paris street scenes where well-dressed ladies carrying parasols coped with small dogs.
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Critical responses to Slint's reunion have been mixed, with detractors commenting on the music's unsuitability for a live setting . " Chicago Sun-Times " music critic Jim DeRogatis wrote that although " fans greeted [ Slint's performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival ] as manna from heaven . [ . . . ] the musicians'fragile, intertwining guitar lines, mumbled attempts at poetry and uninspiring New York " review of a performance at Webster Hall opined " the deeply brooding, fussily-executed album finally sounded, sixteen years later, like the existential, cosmos-annihilating shrug it was envisioned as.
