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Campion


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.

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  • (1) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (2) And in November, the US sixth circuit court of appeals ruled against these decisions , leaving Johnson and Campion in the same demeaning and inconvenient legal status they have faced since getting together.
  • (3) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
  • (4) The substitution of arginine 45 with lysine also showed no effect on receptor binding, unlike the absolute requirement observed for the arginine side-chain at position 41 [Engler DA, Campion SR, Hauser MR, Cook JS, Niyogi, SK: J Biol Chem 267:2274-2281, 1992].
  • (5) Dolan made an emotional speech thanking his family and the jury president, Jane Campion, whose film The Piano was one of the first he saw.
  • (6) My own view is that we do: people such as Pedro Almodóvar, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jane Campion, Pedro Costa, Wong Kar-Wai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jacques Audiard – and, perhaps most importantly, the Austrian Michael Haneke, who has produced a string of lacerating movies: Code Unknown (2000), Hidden (2005) and The White Ribbon (2009).
  • (7) Ten of the nominations in the TV categories were for the BBC, including Dancing on the Edge, Stephen Poliakoff's 1930s London jazz scene, detective drama Luther, the White Queen, BBC1's adaptation of Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses novels, and BBC 2's Top of the Lake, Jane Campion's New Zealand-set thriller.
  • (8) This year's Cannes film festival jury will be led by Jane Campion, who beat both Leigh and Loach to the Palme d'Or in 1993 for her critically acclaimed film The Piano.
  • (9) The longer the delay, however, the longer couples like Campion and Johnson must deal with the practical issues of being a couple, and parents, in a legal system that doesn’t recognize their families.
  • (10) "I'd been dreaming about writing a story that was basically a mystery detective story, set in this area I know very well, which is New Zealand," said Campion.
  • (11) It's significant that a film director of the calibre of New Zealand's Jane Campion chose BBC2 with which to make her first foray into TV, Top of the Lake.
  • (12) He cries, thanks Jane Campion for The Piano, marvels at the pleasure of his short time in "this crazy business".
  • (13) He added that the corporation had "for all the difficulties … created some absolutely extraordinary content", highlighting its coverage of Glastonbury, Wimbledon, the Proms, and dramas such as The Fall, The Village, The White Queen and Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, which started last weekend on BBC2.
  • (14) I wonder whether Fox and Campion, both from New Zealand, share a sensibility.
  • (15) In Campion's new film, she strolls, strong but crumpled, through the bleached skies and brilliant green grass of London's Hampstead Heath.
  • (16) The paucity of female visions in Hollywood has come in for increasing criticism in recent years, despite the Oscar-winning success of notable exceptions such as The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and The Piano's Jane Campion .
  • (17) At the podium, a tearful Dolan paid tribute to Campion.
  • (18) "I could have happily stayed there for another couple of hours," insisted jury president Jane Campion.
  • (19) Jane Campion 's jury now retires to consider its verdict at Cannes.
  • (20) So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake ( Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2 ), Jane "The Piano" Campion's bleak, eccentric six-part drama about child abuse, murder, domestic violence, painful secrets and terrible beards in a remote New Zealand community.

Catchfly


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

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