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...name of all that's unholy does Lena Leonard (Emily Watson) see in this creepy, inarticulate character? She is stalking him almost from the beginning of the movie, a knowing little smile on her face, as if she knows what we cannot imagine: that Punch-Drunk Love is bound for the glory of a happy (or at least romantically promising) ending...
...office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts...
...Muddy. They are also familiar figures in the Greene canon. The Quiet American is very nearly Greene's remake of The Third Man, his 1949 tale of political and sexual intrigue set in postwar Vienna, with the same cast of characters: a world-weary Englishman; an exotic woman bound to an unscrupulous lover; and an American who could be naive or a killer...
...After crossing a narrow footbridge, our family’s former hut emerged from a dense thicket of lychee trees. It was a modest brown and green construction that Ông Ngoai had built himself. He weaved chutes of bamboo together for the walls; he bound thatch together for the roof. The floor was smoothed dirt covered by scratchy mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image blurred by burning incense, his dark eyes staring...
Although Touborg said the system is operating well, she said that a University with 15,000 regular employees and thousands of temporary employees is bound to experience problems using the new system...