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...frustration and miscommunication, mirroring Phoebe's own, fine. But if that's what he's up to, he fails to maintain a coherence of tone within that narrative technique. At one point, Phoebe does something quite dramatic and dangerous. The movie has been steaming steadily toward this foreshadowed moment, and we feel it coming as a reckoning, involving shrinks, medication, and if Phoebe is lucky, rescue. Instead Barnz, bizarrely, softens it and turns it into another trip to the principal's office, stretching his credibility past the breaking point...
...wasn't drowning under fiscal recklessness, it was being held under by draconian austerity plans. Brazil, the old joke goes, is the country of the future - and always will be. Now, in the middle of the worst global downturn for decades, Brazil could finally be the country of the moment. According to a recent study by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Brazil may be the only one of 34 major economies that avoids recession in 2009. While the U.S. debates whether to nationalize its crippled banks, Brazil's remain comparatively sound. Oil companies worldwide are slashing...
...beginning echoing the panels at the end, with a grand mirror-image spread at its heart. Palindromes, reflections, symmetries--Watchmen teems with them. Look at Rorschach's face. They give visual life to the tensions that animate the story, between the chaotic flow of time and the perfect frozen moment (each panel is one), and ultimately, between good and evil...
Gibbs' Sun King moment came when he construed Limbaugh's opposition as "wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country"--not just anti-Obama but anti-American. In a time of crisis, the line between President and nation can be thin. And Limbaugh's defense--"What is so strange about being honest?"--sat awkwardly alongside his apoplectic reaction to Democratic criticisms of George W. Bush...
...theme has been for a long time, Get out of credit-card debt, know your FICO score, pay our homes off, don't use anything other than a fixed-rate mortgage, real estate has hit its top." She paused and thought for a moment. "Although ... I really thought a real estate investment was the best investment you could make over time," she said, the closest she comes to acknowledging a mistake. Orman owns five homes, although she's not sure she'll make a profit on the last one she bought--a luxury apartment in New York City's Plaza...