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The remaining interest in this film lies in the historical/cultural themes: The war (referenced only in regard to minor plot points - the characters seem
scarcely
affected except that they're scolded for leaving their lights on after curfew), and the role of astrology in American society (it seems to be have been perceived as a way for idle, reasonably well-off women to be parted from their money).
I wondered if this was an influence on the plot of "September", which features a
scarcely
less complicated string of unrequited love interests.
He's handed what can be coyly referred to as an ingenue role (the kind that does not demand much more than standing straight and looking pretty), more specifically, an American dilettante with
scarcely
any money to live on and no way to get home.
Monotonously paced, it never gets out of first gear and there is
scarcely
a funny line during the entire film, let alone an original one.
It's
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the stuff of split sides.
Touching a political topic, it doesn't offer any political illumination (that is to say, no interesting QUESTION), dialogues (apart from the intense beginning) are paper-like, the story has no development (I mean: even in the petrification there have to be developments, if not we should do a painting instead of a movie), and acting is
scarcely
bearable.
The first hour and a quarter
scarcely
set the stage, with the duration moving no quicker or more palatably, and I'm more than patient with artistic efforts that appear to want for plot, but this was pointlessly plot less and otherwise utterly bereft of potentially other redeeming features.
The teaming of Matthau and Williams may appear promising, but it doesn't pay off, and the film is
scarcely
funny.
Fascinatingly mannered early talkie adaptation of a semi-classic Somerset Maugham story, Rain starts wonderfully, with a rainstorm, then declines into a lurid drama of the sort that was considered shocking at the time (1932), and
scarcely
raises an eyebrow today.
A less propitious start for a fledgling nation could
scarcely
be imagined.
The irony is that Germany’s anxieties about price stability, which underlie the EU’s embrace of austerity, are entirely misplaced: German inflation could
scarcely
be lower.
The hanging, India’s first in three years, has prompted reactions ranging from dismay to
scarcely
concealed bloodlust.
Its ten divisions, with at least 100,000 men, are better trained and armed than the regular army, which is now weaker than in the first Gulf War of 1991, when it
scarcely
resisted before surrendering.
So far at least, the moderate financial-market reaction to the M5S/League coalition has
scarcely
affected the rest of Europe.
Governance has been disaggregated and hybridized by the rise of non-state actors, and we have
scarcely
begun to consider the far-reaching implications of new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
No.True, American leadership in promoting peace in Bosnia underlines the
scarcely
surprising fact that once the United States lends its power to efforts of conflict resolution, chances of success improve considerably.
To be sure, the communists-cum-postcommunists who have dominated Polish politics since 1989 were utterly repudiated – the left got
scarcely
11% of the vote in the parliamentary poll.
But they were balanced by those like Nassau Senior, who spoke out against even famine relief: Although a million people would die in the Irish Potato Famine, “that would
scarcely
be enough.”
Keeping birds in cages that prevent them flying
scarcely
merits comment.
Although Madonna has said that she will bring him back to Malawi to see his father again, he will
scarcely
be able to feel at home there.
If in the course of inspections Iraq were exposed as having lied and cheated this would be a confirmation of the effectiveness of the inspections,
scarcely
a justification for military reprisals.
The global financial crisis required advanced economies’ central banks to contend with circumstances that those who crafted their mandates
scarcely
could have imagined.
Otherwise, communist patriarchs--and their often
scarcely
more democratic postcommunist successors--have not seen fit to pitch their bloodlines against the sprawling institutional bureaucracy left behind by Leninism.
By its nature communism--whose bureaucracy still exists in almost unadulterated form in the countries of the former Soviet Union--spawned lobbies and clans with a combined might that even the closest-knit family can
scarcely
expect to overcome.
But, on the radar of gloom and challenge, one bit of good news – the result of the presidential election in Zambia –
scarcely
made a blip.
While Republicans embraced a brutish, race-baiting reality-TV star, many Democrats swooned for a self-declared socialist senator with
scarcely
any legislative achievements to his name.
And while the Fed’s interest-rate hikes could hardly have been more carefully signaled in advance, there are still concerns that the desired financial tightening in credit markets has
scarcely
occurred yet, and that, if and when it does, some borrowers could find themselves uncomfortably exposed.
The Dollar is Still KingITHACA –
Scarcely
a week passes without news about the ascendance of China’s currency, the renminbi.
Making matters worse, the two countries have, to all intents and purposes, broken off both unofficial and - with
scarcely
an exception - official dialogue.
The German economy is not as successful as many believe: workers have
scarcely
benefited from the country’s export prowess, public investment is inadequate, and its manufacturing heartland, which specializes in incremental innovation, is ill-prepared for looming digital disruption.
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