Word: torrent
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...prominent literary figure in China's film, theater and book circles, whose communist credentials did not protect him from persecution during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Xia is considered the grandfather of China's grandly propagandistic, procommunist movies, notably his 1930s screenplays of such epics as Wild Torrent and Twenty Four Hours in Shanghai. Named Vice Minister of Culture in 1954, Xia continued producing screenplays well into the 1960s. Nonetheless, during the Cultural Revolution, he was severely criticized and imprisoned for more than eight years for ``revisionist'' ideas...
...first scene, in which the characters mostly sit around and talk about the child's refusal to sleep, seems almost a parody of Mamet's trademark style, and the audience cannot resist laughing watching the adults and the child struggle awkwardly to keep afloat in the ceaseless torrent of words...
...small dramatization of the merger, look at the best movie of 1994 (some critics say): Pulp Fiction, wherein professional killers engage in 1) savagely flippant violence, and 2) boyishly earnest moralism. A torrent of casual, brutal obscenity flows through discussions marked by a strange, scholastic nicety...
...recent departure from the New York Times spun off a torrent of debate, including Marjorie Williams' less than flattering article in Vanity Fair several weeks before Quindlen's announcement. Is Anna Quindlen selling out by rejecting the gleaming apple of a possible executive editorship, or is she just exercising her own choices as a woman by opting to write novels at home, allowing her to spend more time with her three children...
Castro primarily has himself to blame for Cuba's current travails. Some reforms he instituted since mid-1993 had begun to pull the country back from the brink of disaster after the collapse of the Soviet bloc cut Moscow's aid from a torrent to a trickle and then to nothing. When he legalized individual private business last September, Havana suddenly sprouted plumbers, hairdressers, restaurateurs, repairmen and other overnight entrepreneurs permitted to work for themselves. But the July 1993 legalization of dollar holdings was a two-edged sword. It brought much needed hard currency into Cuba, but also split what...