Word: oblivion
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...than any Masterpiece Theater ever dreamed of - which includes his sister, Julia (Hayley Atwell), and his sternly religious mother (Emma Thompson, splendidly playing as far from her usual inviting self as it's possible to get). Now Charles and Julia start eyeing one another, Sebastian starts drinking himself into oblivion, and a happily romantic ending to the Charles-Julia relationship is narrowly averted...
...this way, Harvard can be thought of as the mother of all hedge funds—composed of students who are perpetually hedging their bets. One only wonders, when all is said and done, whether there'll be a corner of their soul that hasn't been hedged into oblivion...
...Well, maybe not in that empyrean, but arguably in the ballpark. It's hard not to feel warmly toward Allen after VCB, his first vital movie since Match Point three years ago (we quickly throw the veil of oblivion over Scoop and Cassandra's Dream), and maybe his most engaging large-scale effort since, let's say, Crimes and Misdemeanors nearly 20 years ago. It doesn't percolate with the inventive comic situations or quotable one-liners of the films that established his meta-movie credentials, Annie Hall and Manhattan; but, like them, this one is about people whose jobs...
...other lesson to be learned is not to exaggerate the consequences of these trade disputes. Back in the 1980s, Americans mistook Japan's edge in trade as a sign of their own economic ruin. Today, the whole idea that Japan was supposed to shove the U.S. economy into oblivion seems quite silly. What most Americans didn't understand is that U.S. economic success didn't depend on making TV sets; it was based on the technological innovation at which Americans excel. Beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. experienced one of its most sustained economic booms ever in part...
...fated presidential bid mentioned specifically this necessary change in its policy platform (yes, he had a platform). Following Thompson’s lead, the Giuliani campaign took up this cause. It would be regrettable if these candidates’ mutual call for thorough tax reform fell into oblivion with their White House aspirations...