Word: sprawls
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...there's plenty of it. The picture, directed and co-written by Gregor Jordan from Robert O'Connor's novel, plays like a mini-series compacted into 95 minutes. It develops a severe case of character sprawl: a clueless colonel (Ed Harris) and a hard-nosed top sergeant (Scott Glenn) and their respective women (Elizabeth McGovern, Anna Paquin)--both of whom cozy up to Elwood--plus lots of troublesome MPs and outsiders who stand in Elwood's way as he plans the big score. What's worth savoring is Phoenix's performance, cool and alert, confiding only in the camera...
...Jesus: Coming Soon,” planted directly next to a used car dealership in a moment of marketing genius. It was practical product placement, to be sure. If Jesus were coming to Atlanta, he’d have to buy a car first to navigate the sprawl and preach to the suburban masses...
...Queensland?s Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired...
...Karachi, a port city of 14 million on the Pakistani coast, where the Pab mountain range and the Sindh Desert gather into a brick-and dust-hued urban sprawl before tumbling into the Arabian Sea, is the battlefield in which an assassin like M.R. thrives. In Karachi you have ethnic feuds: gangs of Indian migrants versus the Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis; you have extremists from rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects battling each other (lately, radical Sunnis are gunning down Shi'ite doctors and lawyers at random); and, of course, there are the radical Islamic groups that shelter al-Qaeda...
...recent Saturday afternoon, the roommates sprawl across the four grey, red, white and yellow couches in the Quincy 305 common room...