Word: controll
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Love's Labour's Lost From the get-go, the movie is all ugly, no truth. Mike might be a little rough-edged, but Abby is a control freak, bossing everyone from underlings to blind dates. Something is very wrong when the beast is instantly more endearing than the beauty, and when a movie written by three women (two of whom did the very entertaining Legally Blonde, also directed by Luketic) becomes an unplanned essay in misogyny. Then again, everything goes awry here. A restaurant scene with Abby wearing vibrating underpants (a gloss on Meg Ryan's fake orgasm...
...movie begins at the end of their affair and hopscotches semirandomly through the days and nights of karaoke, soulful chats and not quite connecting. Anyone who's been there knows that the one who's more loved is always in control of the one who's more loving. But Tom keeps trying. He's like the most determined participant in the Olympics of Romance. He's also our identity figure, in a woman's movie for sensitive guys. Think we don't care? it says. Think we don't hurt...
Mugabe is still in control of most of the levers of state power in Zimbabwe; his network of patronage remains intact. Tsvangirai, on the other hand, has stood powerless as farm invasions continue, and members of his own party have faced abuse at the hands of state security agents...
...What Iraq and Afghanistan taking up the airwaves, it’s easy to forget that for the past 50 years, thousands of American troops have been stationed in South Korea. This commitment is scheduled to decrease in 2012, when the US will hand over wartime operation control of forces back to the Korean military. This gesture is only the latest scale back for the American military in Korea, which has been dialing down its presence over the past decade...
...however, my run-in with the authorities is just another example of the shortsighted mismanagement of Equatorial Guinea. While the government lavishes in oil wealth, the citizenry suffer under the weight of unbearable poverty. Tourism could be an avenue for Guineans outside of the government sector to begin taking control of their own economic potential. The country itself is a vibrant and beautiful place, with landscapes ranging from volcanic mountains to elephant forests to grassy plains and sleepy seaside villages. With the right resources, there could be a thriving adventure tourism scene here that could send some much-needed money...