Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...century Japan, the skeleton story concerns a bandit's attack on a man and his wife, the robbery and murder of the husband, and the rape of the woman. In Rashomon, this story is told four times--by the bandit, the man, the woman, and a hidden spectator. The teller's shame and conceit color each account, so that four completely different stories emerge, with only the barest similarity between them...
...final vote came after an afternoon of political maneuvering. The Administration pleaded for a direct vote on the issue, instead of a decision for the high school training, which was requested in a teller vote of 150 to 145 earlier in the afternoon. A roll call vote of 235 to 156 kept the bill before the House and paved the way for its eventual recommital...
...Nelson's empty hand, nonetheless, Novelist Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles has tried to create a modern hero. Dyar is not a man, he is a vacuum. His only deep desire is to fill his own emptiness. He throws up his job as a New York bank teller, takes ship to Tangier, and waits for things to happen to him-any things, so long as they are solid enough to give him the feeling of being in touch with reality...
...crops, for the support price, holds them in Government-leased warehouses until the market price rises above the support price, then sells them. A handful of warehouse operators had been selling the grain when prices were high, hoped to replace it later with cheaper grain. But like the bank teller who borrows money from the till to play the horses and plans to pay it back when he hits a winner, many a warehouseman never got around to making up the shortage. Explained one grainman: "It has been going on for years. It just sort of crept...
...husband die? In turn, the movie gives the dramatized explanations of the arrogant bandit, the tearful widow and, through the weird incantations of a medium, the dead husband. Each of these contradictory accounts is fundamentally a lie, colored by the guilty motives of the teller. All three are exposed by a fourth version, told by the woodcutter, who turns out to have been an eyewitness to the whole incident; and even the woodcutter falsifies some of his own story to let himself off easy...