Word: interiorities
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...Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so super-cool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is followed by with the camera point-of-view shifted 90 or 180 degrees - which is geometrically groovy, no question, but pretty quickly predictable. Same goes for his stories, which rely on gifted people behaving goofily. Anderson has the attitude for comedy, but not the aptitude. His films are museum...
Moroccans call the nation's postindependence era, from the 1960s to the '80s, the "years of lead," a time when hundreds of political dissidents were jailed or "disappeared." The architect of the repression: longtime Interior Minister Driss Basri, King Hassan II's closest aide. Armed with a vast web of informers, Basri repeatedly quashed popular uprisings in the '80s and '90s. ("I'm not Jesus Christ," he once said. "If someone slaps my right cheek, I do not turn the left.") Fired in 1999 by Hassan's son and successor, Mohammed VI, he died in self-imposed exile in Paris...
...billion project onto their books. Boeing has taken risks with new materials and technologies and fashioned the Dreamliner into something that beleaguered airlines and their passengers might actually enjoy. Analysts say the 787 might be the first plane that passengers actually choose to fly because of new interior amenities, such as more pressurization, more humidity, bigger windows, more room as well as a lower carbon footprint per seat. That hits a sweet spot with airlines when coupled with savings in operations and maintenance costs...
...carriages before plodding in and out of drab stations, St. Pancras will attempt to restore the romance to rail travel. Although less well-known abroad than the nearby Kings Cross station popularized in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, St. Pancras still had the last laugh: Its grand gothic interior was the location for the scene in the movie version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when the boy wizard departs from the mythical platform...
...part of the shuffle, Abe's close ally, former foreign minister Taro Aso, now becomes party secretary general; his place is taken by legislator Nobutaka Machimura, the head of the LDP's biggest faction. Civilian appointee Hiroya Masuda, a former prefectural governor and regional reformer, becomes Abe's interior minister in charge of addressing the concerns rural voters left out of Japan's urban-centered economic recovery. Popular LDP member of parliament Yoichi Masuzoe, a vocal critic of Abe's, will become minister of health, labor and welfare. It's an important but uncoveted position: Masuzoe must untangle the mishandling...