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Unlike Easy Rider, it is a film that simply observes and what it sees is pure Americana: its people, gas stations, diners, and drag strips.
But despite the hypocrisy, mismanagement and unruly behavior that director Murray Lerner ("When We Were Kings") so keenly observes, he does not lose sight of the fact that a lot of great music went down during those five days.
Many of them turn the project into a commentary on cinema in some form - Boorman films Neil Jordan at work, with the actors looking quizzically into the camera (a common device here, also used by Angelopoulos and Costa-Gavras); Lelouch has a sort of reverse version of the Vertigo kiss, designed with great panache. in which a historic parade of cameras observes the spiraling lovers; some, like Rivette, just take varied people and let them play (he's very engaging, seen protesting that the film is too short).
It is there that he meets an interesting woman (Roseanna Arquette) when he observes that she is reading the novel called Tropic of Cancer.
Clare observes in her monotone voice "Someone's been watching too many crappy movies."
Furthermore, Lee observes, China’s “great advantage is not in military influence but in…economic influence.”
In the case of Germany, one observes an interesting kink in its demography: from 2005-2015, the working-age population is temporarily stabilized.
Indeed, the IPCC observes that increased hurricane costs “have not been attributed to climate change.”
The good news, as Roach observes, is that the service sector places less burden on natural resources and creates more employment than manufacturing.
As Refugees International observes: “The government is more likely to take action against those who report and document rape than those who commit it.”
The UN report observes that national economic policies and existing multilateral settings are not designed to mitigate effectively the risk of a global slowdown or to address global imbalances.
Thus, as Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum observes, the “scarcity of a skilled workforce rather than the availability of capital is more likely to be the crippling limit to innovation, competitiveness, and growth.”
Violence and InnovationABU DHABI – In the 1949 British film The Third Man, the character Harry Lime observes that, during the Borgia family’s rule in Renaissance Italy, the country “had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed.
That is why this February 11, as the world observes the third International Day of Women and Girls in Science, scientists from across the disciplines should take a moment to reflect on how far their female colleagues have come, and to remember how far we still have to go.
For example, the Judge Advocate General Corps routinely observes military interrogations from behind a two-way mirror; that practice was discontinued in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Piketty observes a rising wealth-to-income ratio from 1970 to 2010 – a period divided by a significant change in the monetary environment.
Capital is fleeing Italy, as Carmen Reinhart observes.
Deaton observes that, in general, Western countries developed without receiving any aid.
Robert Kaplan wisely observes that “Indian geography is the story of invasions from a northwesterly direction,” and “India’s strategic challenges still inhere in this fact,” which is why Afghanistan, to Indian eyes, is linked to the sub-continent’s history, and thus our future.
China observes that on most security matters, the ESDP will (for now) mimic American security interests, because the EU and US share fundamental values of human rights and democracy.
This second Edo era may sound like a poetic utopia, but it has some influence: Sakakibara observes that Japanese students do not study abroad anymore, and that “nobody learns English.”
In Hamlet, Claudius, contemplating Ophelia’s deteriorating mental state, observes that, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies/but in battalions.”
Even the conservative-minded " Economist" observes that the Bush Administration's proposals are not a short-term economic stimulus: they simply do "not provide the short, sharp boost for which many political leaders, including Mr Bush himself, have been calling."
Someone observes some instructive case or some anecdotal or empirical regularity, and says, “This is interesting; let’s build a model of this.”
As former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis observes, the promise of a long-term growth dividend from structural reform is not enough to allay people’s concerns about the immediate or near-term future, especially in a semi-stagnant economy.
Unfortunately, as Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center, an American foreign-policy think tank, observes, official Pakistani tactics sustain the country’s “isolation and decline.”
As Proffer observes, Brodsky attempted to “revolt against the culture of ‘we,’” believing that “a man who does not think for himself, a man who goes along with the group, is part of the evil structure” of totalitarianism – and was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1972.
An old Argentine joke wryly observes that the problem with the country’s debt is not that it is external, but that it is eternal.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, as a foreign observer observes, only receives “collateral damage.”
Moore’s law observes the increase in computer processing power over time – specifically, that the number of transistors that can be placed cheaply on an integrated circuit doubles every 18-24 months.
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