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...knows he is crafting an epic and wants the audience to know it too. As Lady Ashley herself comments, “It’s all very Outback adventure.”The first half of the movie is therefore quite entertaining: it’s a joyful romp across the Outback with lots of humor and action, and plenty of minor characters. But when the droving team reaches Darwin and things take a more serious turn, whatever fun the movie once had quickly vanishes, and we suddenly get 40 minutes of Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman making...
...Tony Blair once enjoyed such popularity Stateside that Americans bemoaned the accident of birth that made him ineligible for a White House run. Westminster is far less diverse than Washington, but if Obama's birth certificate were unexpectedly to reveal him as a Brit, opinion polls suggest he could romp into Downing Street without breaking a sweat. In the green room of a London TV studio, David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and one of Britain's most prominent black politicians, watched mute and damp-eyed as Obama's family joined him onstage at Grant Park. "There are two families...
...willing to settle for that. After last week's losses wiped between 15% to nearly 25% of value off indices around the globe, formerly freaked traders scurried to buy back stocks as slow-moving political leaders responded in union to address the credit crisis. Outdoing Wall Street's 11% romp on Monday, the Nikkei shot up 14.2% Tuesday - an all-time record - making up for lost time after Monday's national holiday. But other Asian indices continued their previous climbs as well. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 3.2% over its 10.5% push Monday, while trading in Australia nudged...
...jaunty title - Happy-Go-Lucky - and a perky protagonist in a young woman called Poppy, played just this side of annoying, but often entrancingly, by Sally Hawkins. Some of the early reviewers have convinced themselves that Mike Leigh's movie is a lightsome romp, a tribute to keeping your spirits up in the noisome atmosphere of lower middle-class London, where Poppy works as a primary school teacher...
...currently seven seniors and eight juniors, actually end up taking only a few classes together including the introductory course Culture and Belief 16, taught by Mitchell.“It’s like what Rob Lue does in Life Sci 1a—a ridiculously overheated review and romp through the major genres,” said Mitchell, who added that he had never actually attended an introductory life sciences lecture.The students must also all take a sophomore tutorial. In Arshad’s case, her main assignment was an ethnography of a group.“I ended...