A significant commercial and critical success, the film earned Streep another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, also winning Best Picture. Critic Stanley Kaufmann wrote, Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today.
contract negotiation. Act of two or more parties discussing points of a potential partnership arrangement. The goal is for an agreement to be made that is beneficial to all involved parties. Discussions may go back and forth between parties until all points have been agreed upon.
Agreement, bargain, compact, contract all suggest a binding arrangement between two or more parties. Agreement ranges in meaning from mutual understanding to binding obligation. Bargain applies particularly to agreements about buying and selling but also to haggling over terms in an agreement.