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If you stand directly in front of the Statue of Liberty--at once shorter and kitschier yet at the same time somehow grander than you expect it to be--there's a tree-dotted sward to the right, facing lower Manhattan, of approximately football-field dimensions but kidney-shaped.
For true instinct, you must turn to Mike Figgis, an English director ( Leaving Las Vegas , 1995, One Night Stand , 1997) who's defiantly not a player and whose pixilated, semi-autobiographical, semi-allegorical The Loss of Sexual Innocence would not have got past the mall focus groups that evidently embraced Instinct . It nearly didn't get past the screening that I caught at Manhattan's indie-friendly Angelika Film Center, which was marked by uneasy throat clearing and lots of walkouts.
10 Lying: Defenders of both men have argued that, even if true, the behavior they stand accused of is harmless.
With an exhilarating leap of the imagination, you can stand among the columns, arches, and porticoes of the Roman Forum and picture the civic, commercial, and religious hub of the great city, the first in Europe to house a million inhabitants.
This was a pretty significant about-face, considering that just two months ago, the Chinese government took a public stand against foreign involvement in the Chinese Internet industry, and that many thought that the government would draw a line around the Net, even if it conceded on telecom.