Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When you came to direct films in the U.S., what was the biggest culture clash that you experienced? In Kyung Yoo,Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca. I tried to make Hard Target look like a Hong Kong movie, but it didn't work. When there were slow-motion shots, [the audience] didn't know how to react, so they just laughed...
...large [July 7]. It's even more disappointing that they have been linked to further terrorist attacks. However, the intensive search for these men seems to have drastically limited their movements and forced them to abandon cell phones, radios and air travel and fall back on very basic and slow means of transport and communication. I hope the Indonesian, Philippine and Australian police will keep up the pressure and not get distracted or lose heart. Robert T. Brown, Sydney...
...problem: "It doesn't leave much time to integrate the running mate into the campaign and get them up to speed," says veteran Democratic convention planner Michael Berman. With the convention already pushed almost to Labor Day, a slow-starting No. 2 might not be fully deployed, with staff and stump speech, "until sometime in September, and I think that's too late," Berman concludes...
...small, nearly anonymous moment between two people in a stadium crowded with more than 13,000. But it proves that the pressure-cooker of epic sporting struggles - when time seems to slow down, and everything takes on a sharper resolution - is as intense as any life-or-death situation. You need to tell someone how you really feel...
...worse, especially for the poor. Global warming is very scary because once it truly gets started, we may in the end be helpless to stop it. But fear has never been a very good motivator, especially not for the decades-long societal changes we'll need to make to slow climate change. Instead of the apocalypse, what we need is positivity. A low-carbon world will bring benefits that go well beyond simple survival, and that's a message that needs to be heard. But if it really is that bad and the end of the world is nigh - well...