Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next thing he knows, he has landed, Dorothy-like, in an entirely different world. Somehow Daniel's boat has washed up onto a vast plain of parched earth, with not a drop of water in sight. It's Patrick Swayze as Pecos Bill, and not Glinda the Good Witch, who arrives in a cyclone, just in time to rescue Daniel from two comically imbecilic vagrants poised to kill Daniel for his gold fillings...
...opponents occupies the first hour of the film, occasioning some fetchingly naive comments like Benny's description of sex: "It would be like someone was putting his finger up your nose." Jack, too has demons to overcome; a medical student by his father's command, he faints at the sight of blood (yes, really...
...nominee for Best Foreign Film. Anne and Aleksander are lovers--that is why her marriage is in trouble--while the refugee hiding in the monastery is the daughter of Aleksander's former lover. Even when the connections between characters are not that intimate, they sometimes know one another by sight, because commerce and communications keep shrinking the world. War zones nowadays have area codes, and the vision of a terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point...
Fengshui, one's living and working environment, can be altered by arranging the physical objects within a room or house to bring them into harmony, Lin said. In particular, he noted that the position of one's bed and one's first sight upon entering a house play important roles in determining fengshui...
...Boheme" is set in the Quartier Latin of nineteenth-century Paris. Mimi, a sweet soul doomed to an untimely death, falls in love at first sight with her neighbor Rodolfo, member of a lovable band of starving artists. Their love affair, made torrid by Rodolfo's jealousy, is mirrored by a no less tumultuous relationship between Marcello the painter and the fiercely independent Musetta...