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Notorious breeding grounds for poverty, drug addiction, and gang warfare, the favelas with their picturesque street names such as Dead End Hill, have been the subject of critically acclaimed films such as Hector Babenco's Pixote and Fernando Meirelles' City of God.
If you like sci-fi this is a must see! or addiction for any collection.
It basically takes a turn for the worse and loses momentum like a lead balloon like the director gained a terrible drug addiction and just didn't care anymore.
Sadly Lance would succumb to his own demons of addiction which would lead him out of show biz and into the religious biz as a clean and sober youth pastor.
Combining the brilliant early writing skills of Tarantino, Oliver Stone's addiction to violence with the brilliant performance of Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and all the supporting cast(Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Sizemore and Tommy Lee Jones).
Sensationalist and exploitative,it concentrates on the subject's sex life and drug addiction,a particularly unpleasant shot of Miss Ross sprawled unconscious over the toilet is my defining image of the film.
His addiction is not so much to having sex with prostitutes, but to endlessly approaching them, pricing the act, and then saying "I'll have to think about it."
This starts out as a straightforward drama about a yuppie who tosses his career into the dumper because of his addiction to drugs.
Tatum O'Neal was impressive, despite her addiction problems, she still has the talent.
If you are a depressed suburban kid under the false idea that your family hates you or that your mom's boyfriend is irresponsible for recovering from a drug addiction then I'm sure you would love this movie.
I'm sorry but addiction is a gradual progress.
The problem of how to wean these countries off this addiction seems to be insurmountable.
On trade policy it is defensive, especially in its addiction to agricultural protectionism.
Some evidence suggests that there is a link between the level of dopamine, addiction, and greedy behavior.
Those without insurance are more likely to experience conditions like obesity and addiction, and to let their health deteriorate before seeking medical attention.
The addiction to political office is always worrisome, because democracies turn into autocracies when leaders cease to recognize the limits of their power.
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve NothingNEW YORK – Although America’s right-wing plutocrats may disagree about how to rank the country’s major problems – for example, inequality, slow growth, low productivity, opioid addiction, poor schools, and deteriorating infrastructure – the solution is always the same: lower taxes and deregulation, to “incentivize” investors and “free up” the economy.
A wide range of effective treatments are available that don’t cause weight gain, sexual dysfunction, diabetes, memory loss, or addiction.
It is easier to vote to spend millions of dollars to eradicate poppy/coca production in poor countries than confront addiction at home.
The UN treaties that guide global drug policy reflect none of the recent findings on drug use and addiction.
Over the last seventeen years this addiction was established through daily negotiations with life’s routine.
Because the poor, unemployed, and uninsured suffer disproportionately from opioid abuse and addiction, the tax law puts their health further at risk.
An historical addiction to cheap gasoline, and opposition to energy reform as “un-American,” has fueled an obsession with drilling, damming, and digging the country’s way out of problems.
America’s addiction to regime change (in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria) is the deep cause of Europe’s refugee crisis.
End the addiction, and the recent refugees could return home.
Addiction to e-mail is increasingly being recognized as a malady.
The Deras helped reduce addiction, replaced anomie with community, and redirected despair to divinity.
And, despite having less than 5% of the world’s population, the US accounts for more than three-quarters of global opioid consumption – leading to a surge in addiction rates and overdoses.
Enhancing America’s soft power, safeguarding its supremacy as a hub of unparalleled innovation, upgrading its decaying infrastructure and faltering educational system, and ridding itself of its addiction to foreign credit might do more to secure America’s global leadership than the most successful of wars.
It wants to keep prices lower to maintain the global economy’s oil addiction and deter technological substitution of alternative energy sources.
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