Word: billingses
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Billings & Stover is one store that has kept its head above water by keeping its ear to the ground.
[SCALIA:] 24 in total, including Venice, Italy; Dublin, Ireland; Billings, Mont.; Macon, Ga.; and Aspen, Colo.
Plot twists upend and make old-hat whatever seemed the height of evil and deception just a scene ago. So, opening scenario only: Vanity realtor Sandra Dunmore (Patricia Arquette) is sleeping with her husband Jake's brother, Ben (Don Johnson), but since Ben and Jake (Dermot Mulroney) stand to share...
Insert here a quotation from a Shakespearean comedy about illusions and switcheroos. Except that here it's relentlessly morbid and with little song and dance to the loud-and-clear cynicism. After getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality...
In fact, Joffe owes a little of the tone to the Coen Brothers, borrowing both an occasional snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane...