Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emotions that the boy's cross-dressing provokes are darker. Everyone goes instantly agog. Wives scold; husbands threaten. Schoolboys turn into bullies, ready to take the natural law into their own hands. The film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant dream sequences and in Ludo's vagrant, clumsy stabs at embryonic machismo. Staring at himself in the mirror, he shoots off an imaginary gun, just like the other kids...
...surprisingly, Polley's character is the only one featured outside the context of the icy Canadian winter. Everything about the film suggests barrenness. Even the entire color scheme is drab. Although it adds to the effectiveness of the imagery and remains consistent with the film's tone, this tactic further distances the viewer. Egoyan's choices are artistically correct, but often emotionally risky...
...most tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...
With Britain behind it, the deal was nearly set: the E.U. would cut emissions their 8%, the Japanese 6% and the U.S. a nominal 7%. (Administration officials insist that the most realistic accounting scheme makes the actual cutbacks lower; what's called 7% in Kyoto, they say, is really 3% at most.) After Gore twisted Hashimoto's arm, those were the numbers that stuck. Exhausted negotiators took an additional 10 hours to iron out the details--as Japanese workers hovered impatiently, waiting to set up for a trade show at Kyoto's International Conference Hall--but the American negotiating team...
...tremors beneath Japan's financial institutions got so bad last week that dithering politicians finally had to act. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) managed to commit itself to a controversial, publicly financed $80 billion scheme to shore up the banks. But that is as far as it got. If Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto does not produce a rapid consensus on exactly how the money will be used or what drastic measures the government will take to resuscitate the economy, plummeting confidence will batter the markets further...