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This user-comment stands as my last personal homage to director Bruno Mattei, who sadly passed away just a few weeks ago.
The other thing that stands out is the casting of the young actresses that play their daughter.
Similar elements of the movie are here, but the short stands in it's own.
All of the stars put in a great performance but in my opinion Joan Crawford really stands out in this one.
Life holds much promise as Victoria (Ginger Rogers) stands beautifully gowned in her wedding dress next to her chosen mate for the big moment of saying "I do."
The "electric chair" also stands out (or sits) in that regard.
Bad, bad, bad... "Fire on the Amazon" stands as an example of how NOT to make a movie.
Of the acting, Barbara Steele stands out the most, though her role isn't too big, she is as majestic a horror queen as she was when she began and the role makes best use of her.
Anthony Franciosa is over-the-top as the Mafia lieutenant and Richard Ward is a gravel-voiced Harlem crime boss who stands up to the Mafia with a brash defiance.
And now, as he prepares to leave office, his approval rating stands as a powerful rebuke to the Republicans, who have tried to block him at every turn for the last eight years.
One reason for sustained corruption is that Russia’s powerful bureaucracy stands to lose too much from economic liberalization.
However, in studying international media reports, I cannot but notice that Austria has repeatedly been described in a rather undifferentiated and unbalanced way; a way that stands in sharp contradiction to the realities in our country.
The United States stands nearly alone in refusing to join the Land Mine Treaty, the Rights of the Child Convention, or the International Criminal Court.
Unemployment stands at 26%, and hovers around 50% among young people.
As it stands, only one university from the Muslim world – Turkey’s Middle East Technical University – makes the top 100 in an international ranking, and only a dozen or so can be found in the top 400 in various other lists.
The pragmatic commitment to growth that one sees in Asia and other emerging markets today stands in contrast to the West’s misguided policies, which, driven by a combination of ideology and vested interests, almost seem to reflect a commitment not to grow.
The report thus stands as a rebuke to Bush’s entire “axis of evil” philosophy.
That is the precipice on which Greece stands today.
As it stands, workers, particularly from lower income groups, are slow to respond to demand for new higher-level skills, owing to lags in education and training, labor-market rigidities, and perhaps also geographical factors.
As Europe defines what it stands for, let us also consider an audacious yet practical idea: synchronization of Europe’s political clocks, so that all of Europe’s national elections are held within the same year – or even the same month.
The Nationalists did most of the set-piece fighting between 1937 and 1945, and the stands their armies made at cities such as Changsha and Wuhan are now commemorated with museums and statues.
If this idea stands, Russian minorities from the Baltic to the Crimea may turn out to be ticking time bombs.
Either outcome would mean that the Chief Executive has missed an opportunity to send the right signal that Hong Kong stands for good public governance rather than cronyism.
This devotion to violence stands on two legs: radical culture and injustice.
But this process of realization is more likely to succeed if Japan does not feel it stands with its back against a wall.
To be sure, the EU’s share of total Latin American imports has been declining, and now stands at 13.5%.
As it stands, the United States – and presumably the United Kingdom – plans to begin tapering QE when the economy is growing faster, unemployment is lower, and government and household revenues are rising.
But, whatever the difficulties, the quality of public debate stands to benefit enormously from well-structured wagers.
As it stands, the disparities are huge.
My life was ruled by tk – which stands for “to kum,” or “to come,” in the jargon of reporters.
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