Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even more frustrating to think that the diluted sitcom treatment was a conscious choice for how to deal with the material, since the premise isn't original. The storyline, in which Chris O'Donnell inherits a lot of money on condition that he get married within 24 hours, is a remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...
...same situations. With regard to Chinese filmmakers like myself, there are two main problems: money, a problem shared by all filmmakers, but also censorship, which I face more heavily in China. The American independent film industry faces the same funding issues, but instead of censorship, they have to deal more with the market. Hollywood has a tendency to take over the world, in terms of market share. There are numerous Hollywood movies showing in China, many in theaters through official channels, other via pirated VCD's (video compact discs). You have Hollywood and then censorship; the market is small...
...There's actually a great deal of body English if you watch. I try not to show off about...
...They got a bad deal," she says, motioning to the right, which ends abruptly with a wall. "They should have had the door on the left." We don't move very much around this store. Clumps of hangars seem to be closing in on us, and there's no real place to move...
Especially for professors whose courses deal directly with public policy and legislation, the insights gained into the political process can translate into benefits in the classroom...