Word: rains
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days of Cannes so far, and 10 days of radiant sunshine. Is this a meteorological record? How do the gorgeous tomatoes grow in the South of France without rain? Yet just this afternoon, the weather turned from hot and sunny to cool and breezy; now the skies are as gray as the palette in an Eastern European minidrama. The change went unnoticed by many festivalgoers, because they're gone; just one week of this 12-day bash is enough for them. Still, there are enough lifers who stick it out - for Cannes is a storyline that's not resolved until...
...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...
...them. You enter them as you would a temple and absorb them by moving through them. Though he does nothing to produce deliberate surface effects on the steel, in the course of being forged and bent at high temperature, and of being left out afterward in the rain, the plates are marked with stress patterns, splatter stains and long shallow rivulets. Then, as intended, they rust. Over time they take on an appearance that's part weathered cliffside, part color field painting...
...Israel, once again, may have succeeded in taking out a few Hamas commanders and slowing the rain of homemade rockets landing on its soil from Gaza. But it has fallen into a familiar trap. Once again, their mutual loathing of Israel has helped warring Palestinian militias overcome their fratricidal tendencies. When the Fatah-Hamas power struggle turns into a shooting war, the most effective way of getting a cease-fire appears to be firing a few dozen badly aimed rockets into southern Israel and then waiting for the Israelis to intervene - which the Israelis invariably do. And when under fire...
...very encouraged by the fact that despite the cold and rain, people still felt that it was necessary to come out and support us on this issue,” Barnhill said. “The larger community seemed willing to cooperate, and the band [there to play for Primal Scream] didn’t play until after we had finished speaking...