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In arty circles, he's famous as the highbrow exhibitionist who wrote and starred in My Dinner With Andre , but there's more to Shawn than grandiose nerd angst.
The Dardennes are peerless at staging and shooting rituals, such as Rosetta's day selling waffles and beer from a truck: taking an order, plucking a waffle from the iron, grabbing a beer from the shelf, counting money, making change, saying thank you, taking another order … It's easy to dismiss films that make grandiose statements about how people ought to live but never convincingly portray how they do.
Gore voted in favor of a solar satellite program that the environmental movement opposed (according to the LCV, because it was "costly and grandiose"); Gore voted against the National Energy Act of 1978 , which the LCV favored because it included a lot of conservation measures, but which some environmentalists opposed, because it also decontrolled natural gas prices; and Gore voted to create the Synthetic Fuels Corp. , an ill-considered and short-lived alternative fuel venture opposed by environmentalists because it involved strip-mining.
Facing the river along Zhongshan Road are some grandiose old buildings, a bit the worse for wear.
The grounds are dominated by the bizarre and grandiose Peace Tower, which, curiously, was erected in 1940.