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If you enjoyed the teen comedies of the 80s like Weird Science, Screwballs, HOTS, and Loose Screws, this is a movie for you.
People like Rose may have a few screws loose or lost but whatever the reason for her behavior, I can't work up the empathy to care.
The youngest kid screws up constantly and says I'm sorry at least 40 times.
This movie takes from one of the greatest works ever crafted by man and somehow screws it all up.
One can only imagine the team of Merchant-Ivory expanding the central idea of this piece, giving that final twist a few more screws and applying more gloss and luster to the production.
As in real life, Eddie screws and gets screwed, but in the end I think you will cheer for him.
but more in the end when black lets white been taken by the cops its really starts showing the symbolic meaning of them representing yin and yang, the first example i can give is white talking about that both lost most of there screws but he keeping them all.
I normally think it's funny when someone tries to create the surfer lifestyle and completely screws it up.
Lower production values (a large percentage of the movie obviously took place in one, large, circular room that was redressed for different scenes) For me, Farscape is about tight plotting: building tension, keeping focus on the characters and the situation, and tightening the screws as one thing after another gets frelled.
The recovery, according to Krugman, has come not despite the austerity he railed against for years, but because we “seem to have stopped tightening the screws: Public spending isn’t surging, but at least it has stopped falling.
Instead, Greece’s creditors chose to tighten the screws.
Finally, the US should take advantage of its enduring position as Pakistan’s largest export market to tighten the economic screws on the cash-strapped country.
Unless governments cut their deficits, the bond vigilantes will put the screws to them by forcing up interest rates.
India also tightened the diplomatic screws on its recalcitrant neighbor, persuading other members of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) to call off a planned summit in Islamabad as punishment for Pakistan’s bad behavior.
The Israelis seem to believe that their only option is to tighten the screws on Gaza.
Instead, the US has been working hard to tighten the screws on Pyongyang, by reinforcing its international isolation.
Correa, who has tightened the screws on his country’s press, hardly stands as the flag-bearer for the libertarian tradition of the press that Assange, the poster boy of “stateless” journalism, represents.
Putin and his entourage “tightened the screws” on Russia’s people over the past decade, and faced almost no resistance to their claims to unchecked power.
South Africa has a vested interest in stability, and it can turn the screws on Mugabe’s regime, much as it has refused to contemplate any form of sanctions because of their impact on the poor.
It is all too easy to reduce the fight against terrorism to tightening the political screws, to a strengthening of Putin's power, to restricting the movement of people within the country.
Indeed, though the sanctions are having a real economic impact on Russia (particularly in spurring capital flight), tightening the screws further will not materially change Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision-making.
They have already been tightening the screws on credit growth for several months, with positive effects.
Though China has agreed to tough sanctions, implementation has been lax, and its leaders have shown a distinct reluctance to tighten the screws on their client further.
Unlike a market for nails or screws, a market for financial or information services must be based on detailed legislation that ensures fair competition and protects customers.
Their example can sway leaders elsewhere to think that they can aspire to economic ascendancy while tightening the screws on domestic political opposition.
Since then, Europeans and Americans have slowly but steadily tightened the economic screws on Russia.
Meanwhile, he is tightening the screws on local civil-society groups, run by what he denounces as “paid political activists who are attempting to enforce foreign interests.”
A safer and more practical approach would focus on tightening the economic and political screws on North Korea.
By October, the only option left was to tighten the screws again.
Though many countries have committed in recent decades to abolishing capital punishment and inhumane treatment and practices, the instruments of torture – such as finger screws, thumb cuffs, leg irons, restraint chairs, spiked batons, and whips embedded with barbs, hooks, or spikes – are still being traded freely across borders.
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