Word: striking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Without Youth might also be described as a wistful man's picture. An adaptation by Coppola of a novella by the Romanian-born philosopher Mircea Eliade, the unashamedly arty film stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an aging linguistics professor whose youth is restored after he survives a lightning strike. Because of his rejuvenation, Matei is able to work on his unfinished magnum opus and pursue a lost love. With a dense, multilayered plot spanning multiple continents, decades and languages, and heady themes like consciousness and the nature of time, Youth seems a lot more than a decade removed from...
...practical terms, the strike is about money: how much, if anything, writers get as the Internet and DVDs replace TV reruns, for which they get bigger residuals. But in a larger sense, the studios and writers are forcing a question that every other form of media is facing: How much is content worth in the digital...
...strike drags on, neither side may like the answer. The 1988 strike lasted five months, but TV didn't have to compete with the Internet or Netflix, and Tetris wasn't quite so involving as Halo 3. (Movies are less affected because they have a bigger backlog of scripts...
Conservationists will also have to strike that kind of bargain with the world's governments if they hope to preserve threatened species. But the face-off between environment and development has been a perennial battle - and perhaps, for primate conservationists, an unwinnable one - given that the countries that are home to highly endangered primates, like Vietnam, are also home to developing economies. That's a discouraging reality for primatologists and for the grey-shanked douc, whose forest habitat in Vietnam is being destroyed at the rate of the 10,000 hectares per year to make way for logging and agriculture...
...death of a Polish soldier in the southern city of Diwaniyah Friday was a reminder that militants will still find ways to strike - and that Americans aren't their only targets...