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...these economic times, the only man with prophet status is Greenspan himself, and his verbal powers apply only to the markets (and even then not as much as they used to). As for the larger economy, one of the bones of contention between Greenspan and the first Bush was that Bush's Treasury people thought the Fed chairman should be jawboning the economy, and Greenspan thought that was silly, and it's doubtful Father Greenback is worried about young Mr. Bush making the recession happen with a few holiday hints about being prepared for the worst...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer...
...title to Indian lands, enabling settlers to press forward into the wilderness. The Indians didn't seem to agree with his task, and at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812, Harrison and his troops killed the great Indian leader Tecumseh. Reportedly, Tecumseh's brother, The Prophet, was so distraught over the slaying of his beloved brother that he laid a curse on William Henry Harrison, "and all who follow him." Twenty-seven years later, when Harrison was elected president, he mysteriously died within a month of taking office of complications from a common cold. Harrison...
...Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions," wrote the prophet Joel. That may seem the definition of the spiritual enterprise, but in the past few years it has not described mainstream religion in America or the rest of the West. Catholicism and the Protestant mainline have occupied themselves with the less glamorous task of figuring out how changing social norms on issues like homosexuality fit into visions seemingly codified long...
...prophet Joel certainly didn't have Tibetan Buddhism in mind when he addressed his Jewish audience in the 5th century B.C. But that's the beauty of the dreams and visions of religion: you never know who may have them next...