Word: gros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest rates, exchange rates and the course of its struggling economic rebound. This year he will be a pivotal figure in determining the fate of the European Union's ambitious but risky plan to create a single currency, the euro. "On paper he has no role whatever," says Daniel Gros, a monetary expert at Brussels' Center for European Policy Studies. "But because of his position, Tietmeyer...
...scene and a dream sequence. Well, maybe they're all dream sequences: Reve? What's that French for? Or all nightmares, because everything goes hilariously wrong. The boom mike dips into the frame. The dwarf feels he's being exploited. Then there's movie star Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), an idiot hunk who unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist; imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman. The film is funny without pushing it and is acted with a deft, manic touch...
...Walcott never whines or indulges in unseemly confessions; he is, in fact, inordinately harsh with himself. Sometimes he claims his material is beyond or beneath the power of his art. In Gros-Ilet, he describes a small, desolate island village and concludes, "This is not the grape-purple Aegean. / There is no wine here, no cheese, the almonds are green, / the sea grapes bitter, the language is that of slaves." At other times, he is worried that his devotion to the English language has severed him from the people of his childhood. The Light of the World portrays the visiting...