Word: var
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...simply reflected in the nationality of its creative spirits, but also in the capacity of a country to welcome other cultures. France has a considerable lead here, having opened its arms to so many such creative spirits from all over the world. Many of Pedro Almodóvar's and Emir Kusturica's films, as well as those by African filmmakers, are jointly produced by our country...
Venezuela's 26 million people have seen four straight years of near record economic growth, and they are driving up domestic oil demand: almost 500,000 new cars are expected to be sold this year. (Why not, with gas at 12¢ a gal.?) But the bolívar is sharply overvalued, inflation is the highest in Latin America, and even Chávez fears that his "21st century socialists" are living like capitalist nouveaux riches, the so-called boli-bourgeoisie...
...populist challenge to "imperialist" threats - and what more convenient symbol of colonial oppression for Chávez (besides his favorite, the U.S.) than the Spanish throne, which plundered South America for three centuries before it was thrown out in the 1800s by Venezuelan "Liberator" Simón Bolívar, the namesake of Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution...
...integration of Venezuela into the Mercosur trade bloc and the creation of a Bank of the South to challenge the IMF. This has region-wide parallels on the ideological front in the form of teleSUR, a continental TV station to disseminate Bolivarian ideology.Simón BolÃvar, the nineteenth-century liberator that inspires “Bolivarianism,†indeed dreamt of a single Latin America where language, Iberian heritage, and a predominant religion would allow for united polity. That is a fine dream, and further integration inspired in by the European model may very well...
What hasn't changed is the NC-17. Though the designation got a makeover in 1990--it used to be X--it still has the old, unfair tinge of porn. The big studios avoid it. Mostly it goes to sexually charged fare from world-class directors, like Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education ($5.2 million domestic) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers ($2.5 million). The one big, glitzy NC-17 movie, the 1995 Vegas-stripper epic Showgirls, cost $45 million to produce and earned just $20 million. That modest sum is the highest take ever...