Word: braziller
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Cheap oil is of course a boon for the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, Brazil and other heavy consumers. Lower energy costs can boost economic growth, reduce interest rates and inflation, and create more jobs. Unemployment in the U.S., for example, is declining significantly. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate fell from 6.9% in December to 6.7% last month...
That Martin Scorcese's After Hours did not garner even one of the big awards is entirely inexplicable. Easily the most original film of the year (with the possible exception of Terry Gilliam's Brazil or The Kiss of the Spiderwoman), this black comedy chronicling the adventures of Yuppie Everyman Griffin Dunne as he tries to extract himself from a darkened SoHo should have been a shoe-in for nominations in the Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress category. What happened? Were all the members of the Academy sick the night that this film was screened...
...billion, much of it going to foreign banks that can call in their loans whenever they begin to mistrust the dollar. Worriers also fret that the trade deficit has climbed to a scary $145 billion or so annually. Meaning that it is now the U.S., not Mexico or Brazil, that is the world's biggest debtor nation. And banks keep crumbling (120 of them went under last year). This does not mean that we are approaching 1929, of course, but as Lester Thurow of M.I.T. wrote last week, "Farm bankruptcies, financial speculation, nonperforming loans, large potential defaults . . . the echoes...
Still, moviemakers have to consider moviemaking the big time--profit with honor. And in films, if not in TV, caution breeds entropy. Charges Terry Gilliam, whose Brazil is one of 1985's few demanding films to escape from the studios: "People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. And so audience expectations become more simplistic. Movies have no surprises, no fizz." Right: new Hollywood is new Coke with the cap left...
...crafted here is a tribute to the human imagination. Though the body may be shocked, beaten and tortured with a power drill, the mind is still free to escape. As is apparent in the final scene, where he soars through the clouds in a torture chair singing "Brazil," Lowry's mind gets away...