Word: myopic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Shanghai, a gang has scared everyone off the streets--everyone except the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley, who help turn a mobster wannabe (Chow) into a Bruce Lee gotta-be. Behind the frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...well aware that his trumpeted “political capital” is losing value faster than a marc in the Weimar Republic, and he is desperate to repaint himself as a more realistic leader. And that is precisely the President’s problem. Rather than maintain his myopic façade of absolute optimism, he should have given this speech months ago, if not over a year ago. That he did not deliver it until now, as he teeters on the brink of a political abyss, demonstrates how truly feeble his leadership has been. The President...
...Bruce Leung (as the mild-mannered ultimate warrior, the Beast). But though Chow the actor doesn?t take center stage until the second hour, Chow the auteur is fully in change. Behind the movie?s frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting Dog," etc., contains a meditation on being an American as well as the pleasures of summer. The one titled "Wall of Corn, " reads in part, "It's a metaphor for life in America. Obscene abundance brimming with promise that also feels stuffy and myopic...
...second terms of Presidents are notoriously dreadful, but I wonder: Has the Permanent Campaign made the problem worse because it renders the politicians more myopic? Republicans seem better at campaigns, permanent and otherwise, than Democrats. It may be that conservatives just don't take governance as seriously as liberals do, and therefore have more freedom to maneuver. Didn't Reagan say government was "the problem, not the solution"? The very notion of planning for the common good, especially long-term planning, seems vaguely ... socialist, doesn't it? The Bush Administration is filled with hard-charging executives but bereft of meat...