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The bulk of Malays in the country at large are humbler town- and village-dwelling people — tending goats and buffaloes, growing rice, and working in the coconut, rubber, timber, rattan, and bamboo industries.
From that angle, the starkest counterpoint imaginable to Con Air is Ulee's Gold , which begins with a leisurely scene of Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda), a traumatized Vietnam veteran, aside a swamp, tending impassively to his tupelo honeybees.
Jane Campion's ( The Piano ) latest offering draws divergent reactions, most tending toward the negative.
Under-researched and perfunctory (no editor or reporter wants this unrewarding, time-consuming assignment), tending toward hyperbole (once a writer has picked things to preview, he has to justify his choices), previews nonetheless provide a valuable service.
Dramatic plays are staged almost entirely in Polish, tending to exclude most foreign tourists.