Word: slight
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Because of the visual style he chooses, Hicks is able to retain the novel's dense, multi-tiered flashback structure. Though the screenplay is, for the most part, religiously faithful to the novel, Hicks does take a few very slight liberties with the ending. More cynical viewers may find his alterations maudlin; I found them highly effective--and appropriate, given the film's overall tone...
...time being he has developed a Teflon coating. The biggest threat facing Putin, says Pavlovsky, is dramatically inflated popular expectations. Two and a half months of campaigning, however, allow little chance for Putin's 65% confidence ratings or popular expectations to be significantly deflated. There is also a slight possibility that Putin's views on anything, from economics to defense, will become much clearer in this time. Last week--in what with hindsight seems like a heavy hint that Putin was preparing for greater things--the Russian-government website posted a long and somewhat turgid statement of Putin's beliefs...
Finally, even though the investment banks spewed new dotcoms at a record rate, there is simply not enough supply of these high-growth stocks out there to sate the demand of both the individuals and the institutions that want them. A slight curtailing of the new-issue pipeline, mandated by regulators as a pre-Y2K bug precaution, caused the few Business-to-Business plays out there, like VerticalNet, to soar. Stocks trade as a function of supply and demand, and right now every dotcom is Pokemon at Christmas--only in the case of stocks, the shortage won't be fixed...