Word: arcing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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However, after this confrontation, the monks regrouped and surged forward again. Shops along the road were shuttered, but people threw down water bottles from their balconies to aide the protesters. Minutes later, the arc of a tear-gas canister looped through the air toward the pagoda's east entrance. The air was full of dense black clouds from a burning car and motorbike. Running monks retreated through the smoke, many armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one armed with a riot shield snatched from the police. They were shaking and incandescent with rage. "The United Nations must know about this...
...last about as long as a Lindsay Lohan rehab stint. Just days later, India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. held a comprehensive naval exercise, the first appearance of the Seventh Fleet in the Bay of Bengal since 1971, while Shinzo Abe, then Japanese Prime Minister, called for an "arc of freedom" across Asia, linking the region's democracies...
...this point director Kasi Lemmons's Talk to Me traces a lively, if fairly standard, biopic arc - the talented, troubled performer asserting his special and winning gifts in an indifferent world. She is, to be sure, lucky to have Don Cheadle in the leading role. He's an actor who knows how to play outrage without losing touch with his own inherent sweetness of spirit. And they are both fortunate to have Taraji P. Henson as Petey's girl friend, Vernell. As she proved in Hustle and Flow, she is a star in waiting - both beautiful and irresistibly free-spirited...
...Evening-what we have here is a movie that is, most fundamentally, an anti-movie. That is to say, it is all wistful regrets about nothing very much, statically staged, lacking in dramatic incident, gripping confrontations, a compelling dramatic arc. There's simply no point in making-or seeing-movies in which pretty people stand about mooning over what might have been. For better or worse, they have to be about people who challenge their fates, instead of limply succumbing to them...
...different stages. Angola's is in its first explosive flush of production, with gdp expected to grow 27% this year. Nigeria is in its prime, ranking as the world's 12th largest producer in 2006. Gabon's wells are slowly drying up. Together, these three nations trace an evolving arc of oil's effect on Africa and the world, of both its promise and its perils...