Word: scopes
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...central bank's 2.5% target, and bankers will likely hike interest rates for the fourth time in four months when they meet at the end of this month. Poland 's neighbors don't seem to be having the same problems; none has an agriculture sector of such size and scope. The national bank forecasts that food prices will continue to rise at an annual rate of 9% through the end of the year. "Too pessimistic," says Citibank Handlowy analyst Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska, who thinks relief may actually be on the way. "We expect a good harvest will relieve some...
...best of her films have been authentic depictions of the Indian diaspora, small in scope and locale but with themes universal enough to have generated a warm and lucrative Western following. Monsoon Wedding, which cost just over a million dollars, earned almost $14 million in limited release. Audiences have been enthralled by Nair's signature carnivalesque style and her craftiness at tying down epic scenes, like Wedding's elaborate, traditional rain-soaked Indian nuptial ceremony. So at first glance, her latest undertaking, a $23 million adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, may come as something...
...cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some hand wringing over a white American woman--a blond, no less--writing about the inner thoughts...
...cell, but the reality is far more complex and scary. Some of Aziz's friends are honest men looking for a better life, but some are con men (insurance grifters, identity thieves), and some are worse (drug dealers, terrorists). Some don't know what they are. With its international scope, its wandering point of view, its constant play of literary ambiguity and genre suspense, Harbor feels more contemporary than almost anything else out there. Sure, in an earlier era there might have been some hand wringing over a white American woman--a blond, no less--writing about the inner thoughts...
Intimate Strangers is not a dry little intellectual etude for two hands. Its scope is not much larger than a prissy office, but it insists that life, in all its goofiness and unpredictability, can happen anywhere. Better still, it proposes that you can make an extraordinarily satisfying comedy without writing a joke. Subtly played and elegantly directed, this is an Adults Only movie in the best sense of the term. --By Richard Schickel