Word: ironization
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Instead, Marvel secured a $525 million nonrecourse credit facility--other people's money--from Merrill Lynch to make 10 films by 2012. Production is under way for the first, Iron Man, to be released in May 2008. Marvel's new studio can spend up to $165 million a flick--still relatively low for the production of an action film with sophisticated special effects, warns media analyst Harold Vogel. "And they've got to create excellent stories to stick out in the oversaturated superhero genre," Vogel says. If the studio goes over budget on a film, Marvel could be forced...
...home is their son's property at Australind, near Bunbury, 2,000 km down the road. "This beach area hasn't changed at all," says Wilson, fishing from the comfort of a deck chair. Wilson was a regular visitor to this beach when he worked at Newman's iron ore mine. Born in Wigan, England, he came to Australia in 1969. "But you definitely now see more people on the road around here." On the way north to Broome, the beaches offer solitude and bountiful sport fishing; it was in these parts in 1999 that then TIME art critic Robert...
...unfortunate coincidence that what is thought to be the world's richest trove of prehistoric rock art, an island-dotted precinct covering a 45-km radius, is also one of the hubs of Australia's resources bonanza. Liquefied-natural-gas tankers and ships loaded with iron ore leave from here on timetables set by China's seemingly endless demand. Doubling back to Karratha...
...directed at the militias but never by name. After all, the political groups that control the militias are key components of the Shi'ite coalition that has the most seats in parliament and that includes al-Maliki's party. The only militia to feel the Prime Minister's "iron fist" was the toothless Mujahedin-e-Khalq, a small, unarmed band of Iranian rebels dedicated to toppling the regime in Tehran; it had been confined to a single base outside Baghdad and was monitored by the U.S. Nobody had accused the Mujahedin-e-Khalq of any atrocities on Iraqi soil...
...hostility is undiminished, undermining the government--and al-Maliki can only look on helplessly. A political lightweight and compromise candidate, the Prime Minister doesn't have the clout to bash heads, much less deliver on his promises to pursue insurgents with "no mercy" and crush the militias "with an iron fist." As the politicians continue to bicker, the big tent is looking shaky; there were calls last week for several ministers--including the Interior chief--to be replaced...