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The stakes are high as we speed toward a challenging future.
You would think that it would be of some interest to try to find out more about this given that the stakes are so big, but it's a very neglected area.
They're creating long-term stakes in the fisheries known as catch shares which get fishermen to be motivated not just in taking whatever they can from the ocean today but in its long-term survival.
This work, for which she coined the term “software engineering," was incredibly high stakes.
That high stakes have a strong impact.
The stakes are just too high to continue the way we are going.
And yet, the type of fishing going on today, with pens, with enormous stakes, is really wiping bluefin ecologically off the planet.
At the heart of almost every truly great crime thriller is a carefully considered, methodically planned-out high stakes super-crime, which 9 times out of 10 is committed by a bunch of likable, grey-scale morality underdogs for who life isn't fair, for whom getting back at the man is, well, something worth cheering for.
The Jaws rip off is the trashiest of the all the Italian 'genres', and director Joe D'Amato is second only to the great Jess Franco in the trash film production stakes.
The real problem with the concept (music or not) are the extraordinarily low dramatic stakes; just where can a movie go, and what can happen, when a man falls in love with a previous incarnation of a girl he can't stand?
I know a lot of people would claim certain films as 'the worst of all time' but I think Redneck stakes a claim for this prize.
The stakes?
For instance in the opening scene the scarecrows (which were humans on stakes, whose blood was drained to grow the crops), looked very real, but later in the film they looked more like fake scarecrows wearing blue colored masks.
The skeleton of the story is that the main character needs to win a public kung fu tournament with high stakes.
That Venice is gripped by disease means nothing to Aschenbach - except that his game now has higher stakes.
The killer, played by John Malkovich at his best, is cerebral, deliberate, and enjoys playing high stakes games of life and death.
Having written 13 episodes of "The Lone Ranger" television series, Schaefer and Freiwald each were thoroughly familiar with the formula, but they raised the stakes for this theatrical outing.
Joel MaCrea is certainly in the same league as Cary Grant and Randolph Scott in the handsome and lovable stakes.
The Derek's have over the 1980s produced a few decent bids to acquire the title "worst movie of all time", and this is probably their prime achievement in these stakes.
Worst scene (of many) is undoubtedly Washington's witness-interview, unbelievably, with an 8 year old street-kid, although Owen's dialogue with the same child minutes earlier runs it close in the embarrassment stakes.
He stakes out her house to make sure she is alone, before he "drops in" on her.
Where there is no substance to this exchange, the actors (regardless of how good they are normally) can't help but compensate with exaggerated emotion, aka "raising the stakes".
Of the leads Masatoshi Nagase rounds things out as an ordinary man, smart and cynical but still unaware of just exactly what the stakes are.
The stakes were raised and the story was enhanced because of it.
Basically Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) is having trouble doing what he does best, setting up a high stakes crap dice game, because he needs $1000 to get the place.
Nor does he care to spell out the plot in dialogue, relying on the actors' eyes or a well-chosen image to convey the stakes.
Johnny Kansas, "the King of the $1 bet," shows he's not in Kansas anymore by consistently upping the stakes.
Jimmy Stewart does an excellent job, but I think Stephen McNalley and John McIntire steal the movie with their portrayal of two bad guys involved in a high stakes poker game with the treasured Winchester 73 going to the winner.
The stakes are, of course, high--will the police and Widmark, the public health doctor, apprehend the criminals who don't know that they are carrying plague before a full-scale epidemic breaks out?
It features film directors playing participants in a high stakes card game, supported by recognizable faces from TV and movies like Woody Harrelson, Richard Kind and Ray Romano, all them improvising in an attempt to recapture the magic of a Christopher Guest style opus.
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