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Details of the prints reveal Goya’s hand—alternately frenetic, delicate and weighty—with fresh intimacy.

The result is alternately charming and clashing — why, I wondered, isn’t the animation done in a 1970s style to better complement the film?

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“Christy,” an alternately exuberant and disturbing biopic, charts her path from that moment.

Elizabeth is also the conscience of the piece, befriending the Creature and being alternately attracted to Victor and repulsed by what she sees as his moral degeneracy—never mind his abdication of parental responsibility.

Eclipse mapping measures tiny variations in that light as the planet moves behind its star, alternately hiding and revealing different regions.

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