Word: australian
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...Morgan's script has events push Frost against the ropes, the better to show how he rallied to win the fight. In a career slump after losing his Australian TV gig, he secures a contract for the Nixon interviews but must pay $200,000 out of his own pocket. The three big U.S. networks refuse to buy into his scheme, and he borrows money from friends. (He eventually creates a de facto network of independent stations to air the interviews.) Of the two reporters he hires to research Nixon, one, Bob Zelnick (large, puddingy Oliver Platt) is cynical of Frost...
...caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman—on her side. He plays a rough-and-tumble Australian cattle drover who works for no man but himself and shirks responsibility...
...played by children with Downs Syndrome—probably won’t help either. I’m not going to make any excuses for Lilley’s poor taste, nor for my own laughter. Though there is still a slight learning curve to understanding Australian humor, the transition is nearly effortless compared to any number of British TV sitcoms. British humor has always been a kind of a cliché in America, one with a tendency of living up to its stereotype. For example, “The Office” had to be translated into...
...Naipaul's former friend Paul Theroux's was rivetingly emotional. Though he remains deeply sympathetic to Pat, who gave herself over without complaint to a man she was convinced was a genius, French is otherwise as plainspoken as his subject: the critic Clive James is "an ill-favoured Australian humorist." Naipaul's second wife Nadira he calls "dyslexic, emotional, fairly scandalous...
...winning. The area of the earth's land surface classified as very dry has doubled since the 1970s; by 2050, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes, that trend will worsen. "You do the math, and it gets a little scary," says Stuart Minchin, a water expert with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization. (See pictures of Australia, the driest inhabited continent...