The bigger question is how far down the revolutionary road Venezuelans as a whole will be prepared to travel with their president.

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But her second win for Revolutionary Road - in which she plays a frustrated housewife living in 1950s America - came as a surprise.

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DiCaprio and Winslet starred together in the hugely successful Titanic movie, and teamed up again for Revolutionary Road, a grim inspection of married life in suburbia, which was directed by Mendes.

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Jamaica was once the "it" spot for jet-setting Americans and British in the 1950s, only to follow Cuba down its revolutionary road in the '70s and now starting to break out of its resorts-behind-security-walls status.

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"Revolutionary Road, " featuring the heavyweight trio of Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"), picked up just one major nomination -- a best supporting actor nod for Michael Shannon's portrayal of a troubled savant.

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In recent years, a hint of off-putting harshness has crept into Winslet's work (in "Revolutionary Road" and "Mildred Pierce, " she did too much gloomy suffering for our sins), but in "Titanic" she plays Rose as a spiky princess, trapped by privilege, who allows herself to melt like a girl and, in doing so, melts her own prison and finds herself as a woman.

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He said the revolutionary underpasses had become frightening and the inner ring road had pushed working class Birmingham into the periphery of the city.

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Student leaders gathering at the home of Ricardo Pascoe, an aide to Mexico city's opposition mayor, were photographed from a house across the road that Mr Pascoe says is used by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party to store campaign materials.

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In pre-Revolutionary Russia a priest was confronted by a soldier as he walked down a road.

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