Word: parroting
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...Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark is more hysterical and a notch or two rougher than Amelie. Part Hitchcock's Rear Window, part Monty Python's Parrot Sketch, Bong's Dogs may be this year's most inventive Asian film...
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...threat. "Well, she's always ribbing me, she bullies me but in a friendly way, like I'm her brother." She interrupts him. "Yes, but he also means to say I'm sensitive, understanding, caring," she purrs. Geng Le starts to tick off those attributes like a parrot. Shu Qi laughs, and it appears for all the world like she couldn't be more at peace with herself. But reality is fragile, and even in that moment, you know she's not. There is a line Marilyn Monroe's character Cherie, the wanna-be singer, delivers in Bus Stop...
...years of sweat to the maquiladoras, Valles is one of more than 100,000 Juarez residents who have no running water. She's confident the U.S. will help pony up the funds to turn on her faucets. Watching over a front "lawn" of sand and brush as a caged parrot on her porch creates an illusion of oasis, she insists, "We're all here because the Americans wanted us here...
...showdown is a boon to the media - especially in this economic slowdown ("recession"? "bear market"?) - which need round-the-clock news marathons to spike ratings and readership. But ironically, the media are so far also showing a second, contradictory tendency that works against this interest: their tendency to parrot the language of the administration in power, especially when reporting on international affairs. Lest they appear biased or unpatriotic during wartime, for instance, reporters surrender their understanding of English and let "bombing victims" become "collateral damage"; in the Gulf War, our supposedly combative media meekly submitted their reports for the Pentagon...