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Richard Dreyfuss provides the intelligence, Ron Howard the aloof personality, Paul LeMat the muscle, and Charles Martin Smith the comic relief as the four main players in director George Lucas' first major breakthrough in movies before his adventure with the 'Star Wars' films began in 1977.
As portrayed by Davis, in her breakthrough role, Sybylla is a font of boundless energy wanting desperately to escape the backwardness of her young life.
The handsome, careful art direction and design have led some to call the picture a breakthrough in live-action family films, but the pacing is too leaden and the narrative isn't rich enough for most adults.
This movie is definitely one of the best Indian breakthrough films of 2005.
The problem is the reporter turns out to be a bigger star than the murderer, and the murderer doesn't like that.It's suppose to be his big breakthrough.
Many vicious details presented in Grace Metallious' breakthrough novel were simply set aside for various reasons, likely 1950's censorship.
Sean Hayes was fantastic, delivering a true breakthrough performance.
It is also an important breakthrough to Limon Films its production company to get its film out of the Cineteca Nacional and to a bigger audience.
Still, barring a breakthrough in United Nations negotiations in the near future and a reversal in current emissions trends, meeting that two-degree target is well-nigh impossible.
We actually may be seeing a politician capable of learning from his mistakes and an electorate prepared to reward him for doing so – in the country least likely to witness such a breakthrough.
Yet each breakthrough inevitably leads to the pathogen’s mutation, rendering previous treatments less effective.
This approach has, it must be said, yielded the occasional breakthrough – sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Then, in 2008, the company had a small breakthrough with a new type of liquid clothing detergent.
Hitler’s electoral breakthrough of 1932 was achieved amid rapidly falling prices.
With no breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Obama is left with the epicenter of the Middle East’s maladies seriously undermining his entire strategy in the region.
Achieving that goal requires neither a technological breakthrough nor a scientific discovery.
To be sure, she has put healthcare reform and a reform of company taxation on the agenda, but the plans presented so far give no indication of a major breakthrough.
The breakthrough in bilateral ties came a decade ago, when the US lifted sanctions introduced in response to India’s nuclear weapons program and then signed an accord paving the way for US involvement in India’s civil nuclear energy program.
And for the EU, depressed under a cloud of Euro-scepticism, 1997 could mean the breakthrough to a confident and enterprising Union by providing its most ambitious project to date -- monetary union and a common currency.
As it happens, this year marks the 60th anniversary of that joint declaration, which was widely viewed as a breakthrough at the time.
Opening China, Then and NowWASHINGTON, DC – America’s opening to China by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in 1971-1972 was a historic breakthrough.
The breakthrough came in late 1978, and was carefully timed by Carter to follow the mid-term congressional elections.
The most important factor in the breakthrough was probably the emergence of Deng Xiaoping as China’s new paramount leader.
Admittedly, turmoil in Tehran brings inconstancy to Iran’s foreign policy, warranting caution about the prospects for a meaningful diplomatic breakthrough.
The award both catalyzed and subsidized the work of the chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur, whose breakthrough discoveries led him to develop revolutionary methods – including the process that came to be known as pasteurization – for the sanitary production and preservation of food.
The first wave of a breakthrough innovation chiefly benefits a few entrepreneurs.
Eventually, average productivity and real incomes are likely to benefit as breakthrough technologies enable new kinds of growth.
The data revolution offers a breakthrough opportunity for service delivery, management, accountability, and validation, thanks to a dense ecosystem of technologies that collect information in multiple ways: remote sensing and satellite imagery, biometric data, GIS tracking, facilities-based data, household surveys, social media, crowd-sourcing, and other channels.
To bring them to the negotiating table again is not a breakthrough, but rather an attempt at damage control.
Should the Scottish independence campaign be hailed as a breakthrough for claims to cultural identity and self-governance?
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