Demme keeps our attention on Starling and her shifting reactions to the world, and his most striking achievement in this picture is his direction of Jodie Foster.

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"This is England, " his most autobiographical picture to date, is set in a small midlands town in 1983.

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Actually, by his standards this new picture really is close to intelligible.

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The teen phenom, who is currently staying in Liverpool, England, shared this picture outside of his hotel earlier today, which shows thousands of his fans ready to riot.

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But this is not quite a rosy picture yet for Mr. Obama and his team.

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Even by his standards, however, this new picture is dangerously dour.

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" Out this month from Little, Brown, his new picture book is the tale of a young boy, Laszlo, and his efforts to get acquainted with the thing he most fears, spelled out in the book's title: "The Dark.

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This focus is good from a development standpoint, but takes his mind off the big picture for a while.

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His cautious line on health care, which some say is too soft on doctors and nurses, encourages this view, as does his rejection of a big-picture vision of foreign policy in favour of case-by-case pragmatism.

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Dr McConnell believes the picture of the last few years captured by his Greenland core suggests this renewed interest in coal burning is leading to an upturn in heavy metal input to the part of the Arctic he has studied.

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