The film is both an engaging period piece, because it views the grim news from the Fleet Street office of the Daily Express (where the hacks bash away at manual typewriters), and topical because it anticipates global warming.
Belle (available 6 July) A powerful, emotionally engaging period drama that tells the true story of Britain's first black aristocrat – and examines race, class and gender while it's at it.
Her vivid and perceptive account of Weigall and the cultural politics of early modern Egypt make this biography much more than an engaging period piece.KERIN HOPEOur policy is to identify the reviewer of any book by or about anyone closely connected to The Economist.
The teenager went through a troubled period, engaging, among other things, in the practice of wrist-cutting.
The story, though utterly sanitized (racism is wished away, ethnic issues ignored, politics reduced to Roosevelt vs. Scrooge), is moderately engaging, and the period design is appealingly crisp, but, sadly, Breslin can't carry the movie.
The Bletchley Circle 9pm, ITV Susan (Anna Maxwell Martin) has her phone tapped and Millie (Rachael Stirling) has her security clearance revoked as the military conspiracy begins to tighten around them in the concluding half of Guy Burt's engaging, well-cast period mystery.
For example, the same number of metabolic equivalents a week can be achieved by maintaining a relatively high level of baseline activity (such as walking for eight hours) without ever engaging in strenuous physical activity, or by spending most of the time sedentary but engaging in brief periods of strenuous physical activity (such watching television for seven hours and then running for one hour).
For the 1970s, the same person wins every time: John Travolta. Hereand there in this engaging history of the period, Mr Schulman seems to share this unflattering view, writing of a "gaudy, depressing" decade and lamenting its "sometimes cheesy popular culture".
Following a lively and engaging question and answer period between the American women and the women from Kav Mashve, and just before we were due to adjourn for dinner, I discussed with those assembled that for so very long now, men have been in charge of nations and governmental relations in the Middle East with little success in bringing about a comprehensive and lasting peace.
What came through in this engaging production, with its stylish period costumes and simple, effective sets, was that Monteverdi's operas were truly conceived for the stage.
She summed it up by noting that "rarely have we been able to create a compelling destination outside the home page that was so engaging in such a short period of time on the Web".
