Word: ushered
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...story begins with the rediscovery of the “Spear of Destiny,” presumably the lance that pierced Jesus’ side during his crucifixion, here a mystical talisman that “Corinthians 17” predicts will usher in the rein of Mammon, son of Lucifer. (Don’t bother looking it up; it only exists, according to the film, in the version of the Bible found in Hell.) Such unabashedly bogus uses of Christian jargon pepper the movie: the gift of prophecy becomes the hottest new tool in forensics and criminology; while...
...from Israel to Iran. Jaafari may also have positions on questions of government and the economy quite different from those favored by the U.S. Still, the Bush administration has welcomed the election results and vowed to keep its troops there until security is established. The coming months, then, will usher in a new and complex political dance between the somewhat unlikely partnership of the Bush administration and the leaders chosen by the Iraqis it liberated from Saddam...
...another comedy out before the end of the year: Di que Sí (Say I Do), in which she plays Estrella, an aspiring actress who agrees to star in a TV reality show. The rules: she has to spend a week at a beach resort with a nerdy cinema usher she despises - and pretend to be in love. In the film, Vega will do anything for the spotlight. Luckily for her, in real life, the world is already watching. Cecile De France isn't, strictly speaking, from France. But that hasn't prevented the 30-year-old Belgian from becoming...
Another member of the committee said that with less departmental oversight, the new legislation will usher in an “old-boys system” of appointments...
What is it with architects? They all think they're specialists in the future. There may be no professionals?outside of absolute dictators?so prone to the commanding vision or the impulse to usher daily life into new arrangements. Ambitious architects are always reimagining whole cities along utopian lines, but the road to utopia has a way of becoming the path to hell. Think of Le Corbusier's Radiant City. His prescription for the ideal urban plan, isolated towers on wide plazas, turned out to be a blueprint for the deadliest kind of downtown and the worst sort of housing...