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Had I paid money instead of seeing a special screening I would have demanded a refund after ten minutes.
I know it's a little late to say this (well, about seven years too late!), but I wish some network would realize how much this show is loved and demanded by fans and bring it back in some form (most likely with different people)!
This is told in a most innovative way for its time, which makes it more regrettable that the film was handled as a pop extravaganza, when it was an innovative and puzzling product with a structure that demanded a more intellectual participation from the audience; and with an organic use of the flash-forward technique (proposed by its editor, Antony Gibbs), an anticipation device that would become common practice in later years (it is interesting to note that five years later the cinematographer of "Petulia", Nicolas Roeg, would direct Julie Christie in the horror drama "Don't Look Now", which contains a scene film editors often mention as an outstanding example of the flash-forward technique, a sex scene inter-cut with takes of the following scene, edited by Graeme Clifford).
India, as well as its inhabitants, shimmers; however, the director Tom Clegg would have done well to ignore the peremptory entreaties of Indian/American actress (using the term advisedly, of course) Padma Lakshmi, when she demanded to be cast as the scheming courtesan, Madhuvanthi.
I hope he was paid much more than the role demanded.
I would've demanded a refund.
As in the Lord of the Rings, it is not a Jedi Knight, or a superman or muscleman or gun-slinging cowboy who is the hero, it is one of the common folks who rises to the occasion when greatness is demanded by the times and situation.
So some patience and a bigger attention span than average is demanded - and rewarded.
Robert Young is laughable as the "young" architect and Greer Garson too genteel by half for the role of the scheming adulteress Irene who freezes Soames out-Eleanor Parker would have been ideal for this role,but one gets the feeling MGM couldn't allow Garson to be the adventuress the role demanded because of her image.
When a friend of mine brought this over the other night, I looked at the cover photo and read over the plot synopsis on the rear cover and demanded we watch it right away.
Videostore owners... do not put a satisfaction guarantee on it, my wife took the film back to Blockbuster and demanded a credit!
Greece’s government then demanded more financial support with less stringent conditions.
The state demanded more from its people, including conscription and ever-higher taxes; but the people also began to demand more from their government, including adequate food provision, hygiene, and medical care.
But, if that is a real fear for the ECB – if it is not merely acting on behalf of private lenders – surely it should have demanded that the banks have more capital.
Orthodoxy has always upheld the sacred rights of the creditor; political necessity has frequently demanded relief for the debtor.
They demanded the freedom to chase their own dreams.
But when the new legal framework demanded the creation of working state institutions that took time to create, quick reforms often had less than the desired effect.
Last year, aid donors and UN agencies failed spectacularly to act with the urgency the crisis demanded.
&The Chinese demanded a complete severing of all official ties between Taiwan and the US, including arms sales.
But that would have required the central government to work with states to develop a rational and simpler system, with the rate capped, as the opposition Congress party demanded, at 18%, rather than the ultra-high 28% the BJP chose (for as many as 30% of all items, no less).
Third, while the relative illiquidity of emerging markets has always demanded extra care, the liquidity risk premium for emerging-market assets may be more pro-cyclical than in the past.
Structural adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and the World Bank ended up transforming these countries into dumping grounds for over-subsidized Western agricultural surpluses and over-priced and obsolete manufactured goods.
At a time when the EU is confronting many serious challenges, the last thing it needed was protracted and awkward negotiations on the changes to the terms of UK membership that Cameron’s government demanded.
Since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher first demanded to have “her money back” in 1979, the budgetary costs of EU membership have completely overshadowed its economic benefits in the public’s view.
Between February and June this year, the generals demanded that private Koranic instruction be brought under government control, that all Islamist social activities be restricted, that public and school dress codes be fully secular, and that the number of pupils in religious schools be limited.
These areas rebelled against the advice of political and business elites to vote “Remain” and instead demanded protection from the vicissitudes of global change.
Attendance at an official pro-government rally in the capital, Addis Ababa, was dwarfed by our rally the following day, when millions of demonstrators peacefully demanded change and showed their support for us.
Populist members of Congress, predictably outraged, demanded an audit and insisted on publication of a list of all banks that the RFC had aided.
And when the Americans have failed to intervene, or intervened late or ineffectively – as in Syria and Libya – Europeans have demanded more American leadership.
One Afrikaner leader, F.W. De Klerk, came to understand – late, but not too late – what the times demanded, and he thoroughly deserved to share the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela.
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