Word: angelically
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...difference between 8-1/2 and other films, like It's a Wonderful Life, where the hero teeters on the precipice of suicide: It doesn't send in the clowns, or dispatch a bumbling angel, But Synecdoche is less forgiving of Caden than 8-1/2 is of Guido. Kaufman says that life is a series of lost chances, of doors closing, until some unseen prompter whispers a final word in your ear: "Die." The apparent bleakness of the film's ending - which is the ending we all must face - led many observers at Cannes, where the film...
...destitute living conditions in Nicaragua spurred both Borrás and fellow Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos to found Casas de la Esperanza. The nonprofit organization, which was started in Cambridge, offers aid to families living in the outskirts of Granada, Nicaragua, including the semi-urban community La Prusia, which is home to over 200 families. Many of these families face harsh living conditions, squatting in makeshift houses with dirt floors...
...evolutionary theory. There’s also José Luis de Jesús Miranda, the self-proclaimed second coming of Christ, who says “two angels” spoke to him. Maher’s response, “You mean two guys named Angel,” elicits from Miranda the shell-shocked expression that becomes the film’s dominant trope...
What Americans are fast learning is what the market pros knew all along - the bailout bill may turn out to be a pill that dulls the pain, only to leave deeper global economic wounds festering. "We're in the midst of a panic," says James Angel, professor of finance at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. Angel, who teaches a course on financial crisis, says that even the injection of federal dollars may not convince banks to shed their fears. "If banks go from being too reckless to being too conservative, there may be general starvation for the economy...
...Congress begging for additional dollars from a new administration if the initial allowance doesn't yield sufficient liquidity. And having fewer junky assets on their books may not cure banks of stinginess in the current climate of constraint. "Once confidence is destroyed, it's not easily restored," says Angel...