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...This long passage will doubtless astound the American audience, since director Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily jagged edge. At no point does little Vanya eat a meal or walk down a street that would meet even the most minimal nutritional or aesthetic standards of even the poorest American child...
...Paulson was suffering, though, you wouldn't have known it-even though he was the U.S. official who least needed the lecture. He remained attentive throughout. After all, Paulson made countless trips to Beijing during his investment-banking career at Goldman Sachs and had doubtless sat through many similar monologues. "He's been in a lot of meetings with a lot of Chinese officials, and knows that the last thing you do is get angry at the effective ones," says one former U.S. diplomat. Wu spearheaded China's effort to join the World Trade Organization five years...
...Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader’s own mood: “It seems...
...imparts earnest metaphorical lessons about metaphysical topics, often enough from people who are painted blue or speaking a language that needs subtitles, or both, as in this film. Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies. Doubtless there will come a day when he joins them in the Valhalla of the vacuous. One or two more Apocalyptos ought to do the trick...
...taken over a program without much of a winning tradition at Columbia, and you haven’t had a real chance to bring in your own recruits. It’s going to be a long, difficult road to bring football respectability to Columbia, and doubtless there are people in the administration there who wonder if it’s even worth the effort. But you’ve also brought three wins in your first season, which is more than many expected, and your Lions are more competitive than previous editions.Your comments about the league not wanting...