The main part of the image is given over to a large remote control, whose buttons are labelled "TV explodes", "cause nationwide blackout", "lose sound", "lose pictures", "launch rocketship", "house blows up", "emit snakes", etc.
— Somini Sengupta 'The Last Pictures' Launches With EchoStar XVI Satellite Creative Time | A rocket lifted off today bearing "what may be the longest-lasting material artifact of contemporary civilization".
Many rival pictures launched themselves this weekend at the upscale audience, including documentary Life in a Day and US indie drama The Messenger (see "Other openers", below), but Potiche's real competition came from holdover title Senna, which has established itself as the number one choice for non-mainstream cinemagoers.
To stop the state from heading in the same direction, Gina Raimondo, its treasurer (pictured), launched a campaign to overhaul Rhode Island's pension system, one of many that is in deep trouble (see map).
So effective has been his intervention that on November 20th, Masaaki Shirakawa, the governor of the Bank of Japan (pictured), launched what looked like a counter-attack to defend the bank's independence.Stockmarket analysts have generally welcomed Mr Abe's pledge to inflate the economy with aggressive pump-priming measures, saying it has already cheapened the yen and boosted share prices.
Samsung has championed the tablet-phone design with its Galaxy Note phone (pictured), launched last year, which sports a screen measuring five inches diagonally, and other handset-makers, including LG and HTC, have now followed suit with huge phones of their own.
Not exactly how she'd pictured launching her glamorous new career.
"Rocky" (1976), the iconic story of an underdog boxer, became a hit and earned the Oscar for Best Picture, launching Stallone to stardom.
Boxes containing type and numbers are euphemistically called windows; tiny pictures that launch yet more windows go by the grand title of icons.
In many ways you couldn't get more trivial than the voting for the Engage Super League Dream Team, as the team in question is selected by a panel of journalists, and will never actually make it on to the field – although they will gather at Old Trafford to pose for some pictures to launch the play-offs next Monday.
And they seized on it as just the sort of spectacular, lavish, upbeat picture to launch the 54th film festival yesterday.
