Word: monsterous
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...makes for peculiar bedfellows. One of the mobilizers of the weekend protest was Weng Tojirakan, a respected democracy activist who had been vociferous in his criticism of Thaksin before the military overthrow. "I do not support Mr. Thaksin, but the junta destroyed democracy," Weng says. "The junta is a monster and is evil, even more than Mr. Thaksin...
...really filled. Some key guys had off seasons or started off slow, which didn’t help us, and the younger guys didn’t step up in the lineup as much as we needed.”Vance led the offensive charge for Harvard with a monster season, one of four players unanimously voted to the All-Ivy League First Team. Called upon to drive in runs even from the leadoff spot, Vance batted a gaudy .429 in league play and .447 with runners in scoring position.But even with Vance leading the way and Casey and juniors...
...which also aimed to give farmers a fair and consistent price, "was initially done with a good purpose," says Arpita Mukherjee, a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank. But over the years it grew into a monster, gaining layer upon layer of intermediaries, none of whom added any value to the fruits and vegetables they traded even as they added on their own margins. The result: a grossly inefficient system in which farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers...
...sons, one a cop (Mark Wahlberg), the other (Joaquin Phoenix) the manager of a Brighton Beach nightclub crawling with Russian mobsters. The police are portrayed as stalwart but mostly dewy do-gooders, so they fade in screen appeal next to the Russky tough guys - nothing like a monster mobster with a guttural accent to infuse a little juice into a long, languid character study. There's also a terrific shoot-out in the rain that deserves a spot in the Movie Car Chase Hall of Fame next to the stunt action under the El in The French Connection...
...grim, mostly enthralling version of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel about $2 million in missing drug loot. For most of its 122-minute running time, this is a gnarly action movie, a duel between a kind-of-good guy (Josh Brolin) who finds the stash, and an implacable monster (Javier Bardem) who's pursuing him and leaving a heap of corpses along the way. Toward the end, when an aged, seen-it-all sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) takes center screen, the film runs itself off the rails-willfully refusing to come to the climactic showdown the viewer demands. But mostly...