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But if you read those names and expect a big budget, action-packed, thriller your out of luck, it was made back in 1977 when they were starving artists.
The road runner (Hot- roddicus Supersonicus) races by and runs over the poor, starving coyote.
She looks more annoyed at that than all the carnage surrounding her! Later on, with more survivors on board and in danger of starving, she worries about how she looks and applies more lipstick!
I think it is a fine tribute to relief workers and others around the world who both in the present and in the past have risked their lives (and I am sure many a time their sanity) trying to lend a hand in hopeless, horrible places and situations (where people are starving to death, or are displaced because of war, or are dying of preventative diseases, etc. etc. etc.) Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen are spectacular, and portray very well the constant obstacles and risks involved with just SIMPLY TRYING TO HELP OTHERS IN NEED AROUND THE WORLD (whether it be trying to acquire funding from rich and powerful people and countries, or having to negotiate with warlords and governments just to get supplies through, etc., etc.).
Even if it is remixed and sung by starving children to a Peter Gabriel back up band?
Just think of all of the starving children that could have been fed with the money this CRAP used up...
En route to the Chief Executive ("President of what?" Plissken asks at one point), there are downed planes and starving crazies who live in the sewers and old acquaintances hiding out in libraries and The Duke of New York (Isaac Hayes), whose army of ne'er do wells must be contended with.
And, strangely enough, he bears a slight resemblance to Reno (Jimmy Laine, aka writer-director Abel Ferrara), the starving artist driven to madness in "The Driller Killer."
In fact, it's amazing just how well Hitchcock does do this; while they were starving, I was too!
This movie is about a young starving artist lady who's mom buys her a Volvo, but doesn't entirely pay for it.
Barbara Stanwyck's character has "blood type 4h" and they got some very pudgy little kids to play the starving children.
It occurs at night when one of the starving prisoners comes to Vanessa to express her love for another prisoner.
I may be starving for cinematic magic lately but, I'm not desperate enough to settle for less than fantastic.
The scene with the starving little girl in front of the bun shop is very well done and true to the book.
But even Russia agreed in February to Resolution 2139, designed to compel the Syrian government to increase flows of humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
In an economy such as the United States, where start-ups are revered, people who would make perfectly good project supervisors or salespeople establish their own companies, starving the ecosystem of middle managers.
Its citizens, who live on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine.
The percentage of people starving has been nearly halved, from 19% to 11%.
Needing nothing more than food, decent housing, and the possibility of a job, these families wait for death, dreading the cries of their starving children.
Indeed, we have not even succeeded at providing enough food for today’s population of 7.3 billion: Nearly 800 million people currently are starving or hungry, and another couple billion do not get enough micronutrients.
The country’s income has collapsed by a third, inflation is on track to hit one million percent, and millions are starving in a country that ought to be reasonably well off.
The Key to Ending HungerEUGENE, OREGON – The recent news that two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese – and the number continues to grow – brings to mind a question that has bothered me since the 1970’s: Why aren’t we all starving?
The idea that a country can achieve a trade surplus by importing nothing is as fanciful as the idea that a government can repay its debt by starving itself of revenue.
To be sure, while there may have been much “cheap talk” – general advice with disclaimers – most of the losers in this game are not starving.
Tell that to the four million people starving to death, to the three million victims of HIV/AIDS, or to the billions of people who lack access to clean drinking water.
Starving the SquidBERKELEY – Is America’s financial sector slowly draining the lifeblood from its real economy?
Though the developing world had 1.7 billion more people than in 1991, 209 million fewer were starving.
Antarctic krill must not be fished to feed the fish farms of the world while starving the penguins, seals, whales, and other species whose survival depends on these tiny, but vitally important, creatures.
Deprived of the right to vote, of political representation, and of access to hospitals and schools, they have faced pogroms whenever the military that has tyrannized Myanmar for a half-century has tired of starving them.
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