Unlike progressive formats, which show the whole picture, interlaced material relies on the fact that two half-pictures will generally combine to make one whole picture.

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In this picture he has actors who play his sort of material to perfection.

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This monument-like picture lacks urgency and staying power the material oxidizes onscreen.

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"There are about 150 separate articles made up of pencil drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts, along with notebooks and photographs, almost a complete picture of his life and times and his work - so much material that I haven't yet read it all, " Mr Arter added.

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The 1983 novel, by Graham Swift, from which the picture has been adapted is a determinedly inward-looking work: unpromising material for a film.

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The new material is fragmentary and episodic and even collectively is not enough to present a comprehensive picture of the Soviet effort and the Anglo-American defences.

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The material needs that are fulfilled by good brands are only excuses to play language games that picture things, not as they are, but as they ought to be.

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