Word: unraveling
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...director of both films, appears to realize that he will not surpass his previous feat; rather, he makes allusions to his cult classic by designating the signature rabbit symbol from “Donnie Darko” as an icon for the underground Marxist movement that begins to unravel the apocalypse plot. In doing this, he acknowledges that the success of the cult is everywhere. Here, however, Kelly has more mainstream aspirations. He aims both for surrealist comedy and action slasher, although time travel does make a cameo appearance near the end of the film. The dialogue has its moments...
...listed chain with over 900 locations at its peak, dominating Japan's $1.7 billion foreign-language-education industry through discount lesson offers and a sassy, ubiquitous ad campaign. In 2006, as many as two-thirds of Japan's foreign-language students were enrolled at Nova. But things started to unravel for the company in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that its prepaid tuition scheme, under which students bought thousands of dollars in lessons up front and received only partial refunds in the event of cancellations, was illegal. A subsequent government investigation unearthed more dodgy business practices at Nova, including...
Liberal health experts worry that these plans would cause the employer-based system to unravel. But it's already unraveling. As health costs increase, companies are cutting back on their coverage or dropping it altogether. The Democratic solution to the problem is to find new ways to bolster the employer-based system and fill in its gaps...
...productions where there were so many wonderful ideas that students just didn’t have the resources or the connections to make that stuff happen,” he says. “As of right now, I think that we’re only getting ready to unravel the possibilities...
...does.But what makes “Well-Behaved Women” notable can also make it frustrating. While Ulrich does momentarily forge connections between her three central authors and other memorable women at the beginning of each chapter, the lucid transitions and apparent connections begin to unravel near the end. True, she makes her point clear: there have been many examples of women who have earned the right to have their names alongside those of George Washington or Frederick Douglass. But at times, Ulrich’s awkward shift from a two-sentence summary of one woman to a brief...