Word: drowns
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...leave you someday," a slim beguiler (Zhou Xun) asks her beau, "would you look for me forever?" This being a film noir, Shanghai-style, she has to drown in the dirty Suzhou River, then re-emerge as someone else. She could be Kim Novak in Vertigo, hijacked into a James M. Cain plot and photographed in the grainy, high-contrast glamour of a Wong Kar-wai romance. Lou Ye lays out a ravishing wasteland of femmes fatales and lovelorn tough guys--all in 79 minutes. So it's in Mandarin? After Crouching Tiger that's no longer an excuse...
...government to do all this, it must be a freer place. A place where the voice of big corporations do not drown out the voice of ordinary, hard-working people. I will work to get passed in Congress measures that decrease the influence of money in government, and increase the influence of ideas. And so there is a need in Washington for a fighter, a strong leader, not just a glad hand and a friendly face...
...created such a following by the early '70s that authoritarian leaders tried to have a truck kill him on the highway. When that attempt only injured Kim, Korean intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
...sober protests did not drown out another political group in the Square. Just off to the side, six Ralph Nader supporters clad in green handed out bumper stickers and pins in support of their candidate...
...between the two men. But the source of the hate between the two is revealed as they reenact a scene from a childhood summer, in which a girl-chillingly portrayed with both detachment and energy by Agresta-dies while they race each other to the point, leaving her to drown. It is because of this shared guilt and blame that their friendship has become such a mockery...