Word: paybacks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Laurent (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche), an upper bourgeois Parisian couple (he hosts a TV book program, she works in publishing). Mysterious videos, showing a scary intimacy with their comings and going are left at their door, so are violent, childlike drawings. It soon becomes clear that this is payback for a childhood sin of Georges's. But plot is not the point of writer-director Michael Haneke's subtle, creepy thriller, which leads finally to an act of violence that is one of the most suprising and unsettling in movie history. What the movie is primarily about...
...longest of the 2004-05 campaign, which included a 92-55 home loss to BU. Last season’s dramatic finish hasn’t escaped the minds of the Crimson players. “It’s definitely fair to say that we owe them some payback,” said junior center Brian Cusworth, who led all scorers with 18 points in the overtime loss. With six of the eight Wildcats players who saw action in that game returning for tonight’s contest, Harvard will get that chance to return the favor...
...motives of the terrorists vary, from war atrocities to personal woes; in Rushdie's novel a Kashmiri Muslim murders a U.S. ambassador, but it's less a political act than payback for a personal betrayal. Often U.S. actions play a role. War Within's Hassan is radicalized after American agents snatch him in Paris as a terrorism suspect and send him to Pakistan to be tortured. In Syriana a young Pakistani immigrant can't find work in a rich Persian Gulf nation, so he joins an extremist madrasah, but the movie's sprawling story also faults the U.S. for supporting...
...major part of the book focuses on Pekar's realization of how different his own experience of America is from that of his parents. One early scene shows him enduring a punishing street payback after following his mother's advice about turning in a kid that stole his hat. "At that point, I decided there was no point in going to my parents for advice. They didn't understand how America worked." So begins the author's lifelong alienation from his parents whom he loves and respects but from whom he gets little of what he needs...
...also be thinking in terms of payback. Remember just a few months ago, when China's state-run oil company, CNOOC, bid to buy California-based Unocal? Capitol Hill went crazy with talk that China was muscling in on America's strategic interests. China's leaders were baffled by all the politicking: CNOOC made a pretty good offer, they thought; Chevron wound up bidding less but still winning the deal. So Mr. Hu is in no mood to hear Mr. Bush talk about how China should use its leverage against Iran...