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Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."
Monica, the overage Lolita, may have been one of them--but of course, I would not have singled her out for attention before the publicity.
I singled out two such reasons: "First, largely because most of these nations have huge foreign debts to pay off, and therefore need to discourage consumption by their populations, they are pursuing export-led growth strategies.
the same sentimentality and earnestness he throws over every subject" (James Collins, Time ). Techniques recycled from Burns' documentaries on baseball and the Civil War--including background fiddle music and actors reading wistful letters--are singled out as especially grating.
Although such analysis and policy discussions have not singled out specific industries, the nature of the occupational structure and workforce in textiles and apparel—particularly the latter sector—makes the general discussion relevant to these two industries.
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