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His break as a filmmaker came with Once Were Warriors ( 1994 ), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.
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His longtime girlfriend, filmmaker Sara Driver, worked closely with him on his early films, but the stress this put on their relationship caused them to break up and resolve thereafter not to work together and have since lived together for many years.
Her break came in that year when she had a short guest appearance in Come Back, Africa, an anti-apartheid documentary produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin.
Sometimes a filmmaker will purposely break the line of action in order to create disorientation.
He is well known in China as being a highly successful commercial filmmaker whose comedic films do consistently well in the box office, although Feng has attempted to break out from that mold by making drama or period drama films recently.
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She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.
In 2008, 22, 500 students came to Acapulco for spring break.
The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.
The break from the classical mode came first with the Gothic revival, then the development of modernism during the 19th century.
Benedict's career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and television series Battlestar Galactica.
McLean's major break came when Mediarts was taken over by United Artists Records thus securing for his second album, American Pie, the promotion of a major label.
Kaminsky's first break came in 1933 when he was asked to become one of the " Three Terpsichoreans ", a vaudeville dance act.
In the first match of the tournament versus India, Cronje came onto the field with an earpiece wired to coach Bob Woolmer, but at the first drinks break match referee Talat Ali ordered him to remove it.
While many expected Aaron to break Ruth's home run record in 1973, a key moment of the season came on August 6.
For a period of time the Chinese attempted to become self-reliant, but found that in doing so the country could not break even economically, especially when attempting to maintain a communist vision when it came to economics.
His break came in 1973 thanks to Commander Cody, who contacted Vanguard Music on his behalf.
" The Brewers came into the All-Star break with a 52 – 43 record, still third behind the Cubs and Cardinals.
The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.
The final break came as Bismarck searched for a new parliamentary majority, with his Kartell voted from power due to the anti-socialist bill fiasco.
His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985.
Gellar's first major break came in 1992, when she starred in the serial Swans Crossing and was subsequently cast in the soap opera All My Children, playing Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane ( Susan Lucci ).
According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.
In Game 5, eventual 1989 NLCS MVP Will Clark ( who hit. 650, drove in eight runs, including a grand slam off Greg Maddux in Game 1 ) came through in the clutch with a bases-loaded single off of the hard-throwing Mitch Williams to break a 1 – 1 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Sondheim's big break came when he wrote the lyrics to West Side Story, lyricizing Leonard Bernstein's music and Arthur Laurents's book.
While Marlborough's attempted invasion of France down the Moselle came to nought, and although he managed to wrong-foot Villeroi and break through the Lines of Brabant, he was unable to bring the French commander to battle.
In December 1973, his biggest break came with an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
The loan also came less than a year after the City Council, at Huels ' request, endorsed a major tax break for the new Tadin complex.
Lauda was instantly quick but the team was in decline ; his big break came when his BRM team-mate Clay Regazzoni rejoined Ferrari in 1974 and team owner Enzo Ferrari asked him what he thought of Lauda.
At least one German engineer had worked at Bell Labs before the war and came up with a way to break them.
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Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.
Starting with small stations not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
he may break with China ( which would be infernally difficult and perhaps disastrous ), or he may succeed, by all kinds of dangerous concessions, in persuading China to be patient.
Before them stalked the beadle, proclaiming as he went, `` Thus the Council deals with those who break its laws -- adulterers, thieves, murderers, and lewd persons.
I know because this is my 37th year with hardly a break.
Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.
Vending machines can alleviate the long hike to the cafeteria during the break with resulting waste of production time.
The purified product was stored at -78-degrees in a tube equipped with a break seal.
The radiochlorine was stored at -78-degrees in a tube equipped with a break seal.
Purified inactive chlorine was then added from one of the tubes described above and the mixture frozen out and sealed off in a flask equipped with a break seal.
The sharpest break with tradition, the past and present of `` White Ring Around a Black Core '', may come with the opening of nearby Montgomery County suburbs to Negro residents and, presumably, the consequent conclusion of some whites that they cannot escape the Negro by fleeing to the suburbs.
When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.
If the student drops out of high school, the break with the school is even more complete.
The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.
President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately.
There were two possible methods of breaching the conservative barriers around the Rules Committee: 1 ) to pack it with additional liberals and break the conservative-liberal deadlock, or 2 ) to remove one of the conservatives -- namely Mississippi's 14-term William Meyers Colmer ( pronounced Calmer ).
And pretty soon gray fox is announcing that he won't have anyone around that's against him, and setting out to break his second territorial treaty with the birds.
Once set, the anchor tends to break out and reset when the direction of force changes dramatically, such as with the changing tide, and on some occasions it might not reset but instead drag.
This has pushed spring break visitation to various parts of Mexico, with Acapulco as one of the top destinations.
The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.
That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.
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