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...rest of the cast. The play shifts tone dramatically with the arrival of Lulu, Stanley’s younger interest, and an ominous duo, Goldberg and McCann, who plan a birthday party for Stanley. As the play progresses, dialogue disintegrates and the plot devolves into disorder. Despite its grave nature, however, the play—which is billed somewhat paradoxically as a “comedy of menace”—also promises moments of hilarity. “In some ways it’s actually hilarious… I’m hoping that everyone else...
...current credit crisis but also allowed for the inappropriate compensation decisions of companies like American International Group and Merrill Lynch. Many would argue that the absence of effective regulatory oversight also contributed to both of these problems. However, equating these misdeeds with the financial system itself poses a grave risk to the economy's recovery...
...convincing. Even though she calls herself “a fucking loser,” her insecurities don’t always seem genuine. Her puppy dog eyes bewitch many of the film’s characters, but fail to persuade the audience that her setbacks are truly as grave as she believes them to be. If the film really is “Little Miss Sunshine 2.0,” its greatest success lies in the updated evolution of the central characters. “Little Miss” chronicled the journey of some lovable protagonists accepting the slow...
Even as the rest of Washington debated why the grave robbers of AIG should continue to profit from the carnage they helped cause, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, tended to the mob: He'd feel a little better, he said, if AIG's executives would "follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide." Grassley's spokesman later clarified that he was just "speaking rhetorically" as far as the suicide part went...
...soon fell out of reading. My makeshift courage (my orange corsage) was looking lovelier every minute. Luckily it was on the side away from my father, so I could admire it as big as I pleased.By the time the organ was cranking out “Up From the Grave He Arose,” I was well on my way to good spirits. Everybody around me started to pivot and scoop for hymnals. And I was already humming away as I, too, slid my hands around the pew pocket. But there was nary a hymnal. I straightened back...