Word: makeshifts
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...market, where more than 2,000 people live in converted, tarp-covered stalls amid goats grazing contentedly on piles of garbage, graffiti makes their target clear: "Lapindo terrorist," one reads. The company provides food for everyone in the camp, along with services such as a medical clinic and a makeshift mosque. But the villagers are quick to recite a litany of complaints, from the quality of the rations to the health effects of the mud (though the government team says the gas coming from Lusi has no ill effect, locals complain of difficulty breathing and strange rashes). Mostly, though, they...
...aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas stand in for blood and brain matter in makeshift gangster flicks. Classics like “King Kong,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” all get their own indie treatments, to the delight of those within and without the film. Gondry turns the audience...
...they’re not the types of difficulties you’d expect. While shooting his most recent feature, an action-thriller called “Check Point,” Bond and his crew juggled power outages, missing actors, broken-down vehicles and makeshift pyrotechnics. At one point, the noise from a mosque during Salah was loud enough to halt filming on location altogether. While his crew loaded gasoline into the generator for the second time that week, Emeruwa was still as cool and confident as ever. “In Nollywood, we don’t count...
...found that his umbrella worked better as a sail to catch tailwinds than as a shield against the rain. There are plenty of good uses the enterprising umbrella owner might put his or her old weapon towards. They can be retrofitted into reflectors for studio photographers, or made into makeshift punch bowls...
...west ends of the country - an acrimonious ethnic divide. But rogue militias are still around, and the police are still drawn mainly from just the west side. Moreover, unemployment is rising ever higher, the judiciary remains weak, and thousands of refugees who fled past fighting continue to languish in makeshift camps nationwide - a tinderbox waiting to explode...