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...entranced by the other object of the camera’s gaze, Hudson. While it is natural to play up the sexuality of the female heroine in a screamfest, the length this film goes through to present all the lovely parts of the Hawn-spawn are beyond excess. While the cute little black dress she dons to meet an invalid she will take care of could be considered an interview outfit, the low-rise jeans, fancy belt, and itty-bitty, stomach-revealing top aren’t the choice I would make for giving an ill, old man a sponge...
...then there is nuclear proliferation. There are many diplomatic options, including wider acceptance of treaties, improved security measures, increased monitoring, excess stockpile reduction, and better warhead accounting practices to reduce the spread of nuclear arms. These are far from a panacea, but widespread diplomatic acceptance of current treaties and the continuing negotiation of further treaties must occur...
...financial system. From the Chinese perspective, it will help relieve the tensions that have been building from its failed "sterilization" tactics?the inability of China to issue enough domestic debt to offset the massive purchases of U.S. Treasuries required by the now abandoned dollar peg. This was leading to excess money and credit creation?underscoring the mounting risks of inflation and asset bubbles. China's coastal property bubble was a manifestation of this risk, which Beijing could no longer afford to ignore. A "managed float" provides China with greater discretion on the sterilization front, thereby tempering the excesses...
This wretched excess usually backfires. The Cleary family is a perfect example. The crazy grandmother with the potty-mouth—played by the rapping grandma from the “Wedding Singer” (Ellen Albertini Dow)—is hilarious. However, the crazy-seductress mother (“Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman”’s Jane Seymour) playing sexy in a shot-by-shot homage to The Graduate is only amusing in its absurdity. Add to this the crazy-seducer homosexual brother and the already insane Gloria and Sack, and the fun begins...
After the invasion, the Kuwaiti government had originally sought funding from the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)—a subsidiary of the UN Security Council set up to resolve claims against Iraq—to help make up for the costs of excess hospitalizations and deaths during the occupation...