Word: teller
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Savior politics occurs when distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...
...BANK TELLER...
...banks are denied access to automated-teller networks in some Asian countries...
Allen compensates for the grim premise by offering an array of characters as a source of comedy. For example, a sword swallower (Mia Farrow) leaves her clown-lover (John Malkovich) after catching him with the fortune-teller (Madonna). She finds shelter with a bunch of prostitutes (Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin) and winds up getting paid for sex by John Cusack...
...festivities, complete with a caricature artist, a fortune teller, a musician, an improvisational comedy performance, a dunking booth and a pie-throwing contest, featured as the guests of honor about 30 students ranging from five to 14 years in age from the Martin Luther King School in Cambridge...