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...Max’s life at home with up-close, claustrophobic frames in the first part of the film. As the book continues, Sendak’s illustrations grow larger, eventually encompassing two pages; in the film, these expansive depictions of Max’s imagined realm become vast frames of striking deserts and forests that swallow viewers whole...
...sprawl known as the "city of living hearts," was reduced to an eerie silence. Its routinely choked thoroughfares, often a cacophony of rickshaw engines and car horns, suddenly seemed spacious. Government buildings and shops closed down. In the heart of the city, the provincial legislature had been festooned with vast posters commemorating the sacrifice of the army officers who lost their lives in the military headquarters attack in Rawalpindi. Now the city had its own martyrs...
...tano de las Golandrinas (Cave of Swallows) lies a half-hour drive north of Xilitla, and is famed for two reasons. The first is the vast cavalcade of resident birds (which are in fact swifts and green parrots, not swallows) that emerges from the cavernous blackness in a kaleidoscopic exodus lasting for several hours every morning. The second is base-jumping, which is possible because of the cave's 1,220-ft. (372 m) depth. If you're not up to flinging yourself into the cave mouth with nothing but a parachute between you and oblivion, no matter. Professional handlers...
...while China needs Russia's vast energy reserves, it can afford to wait a little while. Beijing has already tapped into Central Asia's vast gas reserves. A new pipeline from Turkmenistan is scheduled to begin gas shipments to China in December via Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, both gas-rich countries. China also has access to the world's largest natural gas field, the South Pars, which is shared by Iran and Qatar. In June, CNPC purchased a block of the Iran-owned South Pars field after the French energy giant Total walked away from the bid for fear of antagonizing...
...attack reduced the bustling city to an eerie, spacious silence. Government buildings and shops closed down. In the heart of the city, the provincial legislature had been festooned with vast posters commemorating the sacrifice of the army officers who lost their lives repelling last weekend's attack on military headquarters in Rawalpindi. Now the city has its own martyrs...