The camera is treated like an audience, with the actors simply marching back and forth on a stage.

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They do not see people simply as individual economic actors, untrammelled by ties, culture or history.

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Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.

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In a sense, Medicare is already like a voucher program in that the government simply foots the bill, while private actors provide the services.

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There are probably as many individual reasons as there are names themselves -- everything from shifts in ethnic patterns, to actors, actresses, athletes and singers who inspire new parents mulling over names, to people simply becoming tired of the sound of the old litany of names.

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The blog mentioned it does more than simply rating movies also, as it sometimes asked users to select movies based on specific criteria, like the starring actors.

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