Word: barriere
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...sometimes even engaging, even if they are just a gimmick to put new complications in old situations. Director Jon Avnet does a good job of making the culture shock as real for the audience as it is for Moore. This is achieved mostly through the exploitation of the language barrier to show the foreign and conflicting pursuits of the two sides...
...just as all the leads and threads of intrigue that the movie had developed seem to be about to come to fruition, the language barrier finally proves insurmountable in providing a satisfying conclusion. In the end, and at the crucial moment, the movie trips over the very crutch which it had used the whole time, and leaves the audience somewhat disappointed...
...related to the idea that when you get into a place like Harvard, you suddenly feel separated from the rest of the world," she said. "I was inspired by the comments on how to break that barrier...
ANDY GREEN Dept. of Dumb Records. So what if a jet plane on wheels breaks the sound barrier? The Wrong Stuff...
...that barrier is crumbling under the weight of economics and consumer preference: nearly 200 jets are on order, and by the year 2002 they will replace more than 75% of the turboprops. "There's a rapidly developing dynamic," says Mike Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research, an aviation-consulting firm. "In the next few years, megacarrier systems--Delta, United and American--will be stampeding to take turboprops out of the system and replace them with jets." Indeed, American's pilots recently agreed to allow the company to buy as many as 67 regional jets...