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By 1880, amid the industrial expansion of the Gründerzeit (founding years), the city’s population soared past the million mark.
Moore internalizes the emotion a shade too much, and her lack of urgency amid the rubble borders on camp.
I first wrote about Dogma (and Smith's edgy press conference) when the movie had its American premiere in October at the New York Film Festival amid demonstrations by the Catholic League and other groups.
In his baroque homage to the book, Coppola apparently could not muster the will to portray the character with such a pronounced overbite, and so Dracula's fangs descend only periodically, amid so much gaping mouth movement that the count looks like he's coughing up a hairball.
Wasn't that what they said in 1996 when, let's see, there were no issues amid an economic boom and the nation had supposedly grown tired of all the scandals surrounding Clinton?