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Lise

[lee-suh, -zuh]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.



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The head of the Norwegian football association, Lise Klaveness, recently said she was pushing "for Israel to be sanctioned".

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The president of the Norwegian FA, Lise Klaveness, admits that Grainger was not on their initial list of candidates when they started to recruit for a new head coach and was only added to increase the number of females they saw.

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But the more Lise questions the pretense of a happily remade society, the nervier everything gets.

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And when Paul manages to elude his overseers and explore the surrounding area — spurring a frantic search, the menacing tenor of which raises Lise’s hackles — the movie effectively becomes a prison drama, with the trio’s eventual interviewee depicted as a shadowy warden who can decide their fate.

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The movie stars Irène Jacob, whose intrepid French reporter Lise — a perfect role for her captivating intelligence — is modeled after the American journalist Elizabeth Becker who was on that trip, and whose later book about Cambodia and her experience, “When the War Was Over,” inspired the screenplay credited to Panh and Pierre Erwan Guillaume.

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