Word: payoffs
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...action of coming upstairs, sitting in a rocking chair, and looking out the window. At each pause, the woman said “More” and the sequence was repeated with slight variations and increasingly sinister shades to the voice’s story, leading to an eerie payoff and possibly the best two-word encapsulation of the four plays: “Fuck life.” While the plays were discomfiting, they were all interesting, even when it was hard to know exactly what to make of them. They hung together surprisingly well, partially because they...
...contents. This image, along with other sensor data, would be forwarded to all the national customs authorities along the route. Sharing data would allow experts to remotely monitor frontline agents. Knowing that their inspection could be double-checked would make these agents less willing to accept a payoff to look the other way. This extra set of eyes would also provide another chance to detect problems...
...recent increase in the club’s annual budget during Souther’s time as HRC treasurer from $5,000 a year to $17,000. The increase in the budget has come through additional grants from the UC that stem from the termbill increase, and the payoff from a recently-created alumni network. “We focused on getting more grants from the UC, we improved alumni mailing and sent them to more people than we had before” Souther said. Souther said he plans to continue these efforts along with holding fundraising dinners to keep...
...REILLY: I guess I'm an optimist too because, on the one hand, many of the technological innovations of the past few decades now are in the payoff stage. On the other, even a serious disruption-- global warming, a pandemic--could serve as a wake-up call, harnessing our ingenuity to make things better...
...although these narratives drive their characters to a single point in space and time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs at the end of the movie Magnolia came on like a cathartic, physical manifestation of all the character's exploding emotions, the big payoff in Tricked just seems contrived. After taking pains to present a messy, complex life-like structure, it resolves into a conventional wrap-up where the bad get punished, the lovers unite and the world is set "right" again. Given its title, Tricked seems to be exploring the ways we trick others...