Word: knee-deep
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This week the Malecon belongs to the balseros. But the weather is not on their side. Juan, 20, stands knee-deep in the swelling surf. Despite cheers from the crowd above, he is finding it impossible to lash his inner tubes to the plywood he hopes will bear him away. The waves are too high; lightning flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape...
...characters have no defense against the passion that threatens to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English motherland. Only Baines and Ada meet the challenges posed by their surroundings. There is a passion...
...characters have no defense against the passions that threaten to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade themselves against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English motherland. Only Baines and Ada meet the challenges posed by their surroundings. There...
...exception is the bride, played by Nancy Travis. Her character, Harriet, reaches a point where she is just as deep as any other romantic interest in a typical comedy--knee-deep, that is. But it's not the fact that the characters are two-dimensional that makes this movie disappointing; most comedies have flat characters. It's the fact that none of them have anything to offer the audience that sinks the film...
...work, turned into a general attack on his lack of leadership in economic matters. The government said the decision to cut back on coal production was dictated by hard financial realities: newly privatized electric companies are switching to gas-fired generators or foreign coal. But many Britons, already knee-deep in the cold, hard realities of recession, were not prepared to see the remaining workers of a once proud industry further savaged in such an uncaring manner. Major even came under attack from renegade Tories who threatened to vote with Labour to overturn the decision -- and put the government...