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Boorman used the music of Wagner's operas most effectively in the relevant spots in the film- the sensual Prelude to Tristan and Isolde plays as Lancelot and Guenevere have their tryst in the forest, the spiritual, ethereal strains of the Good Friday/Holy Grail music from Parsifal plays as Parsifal himself encounters the Holy Grail and Siegfried's Funeral March from Gotterdammerung opens and closes the film as both the Sword Theme and the tragic motif of Arthur's heroic death.
This is true enough as the film closes with the Doors, Hendrix and the Who being edited in for one more song each.
At least it is in John H. Auer's 1953 movie of that name, sort of a noir-inflected Grand Hotel or Dinner At Eight, that opens and closes with floodlit vistas of the wedding-cake Wrigley Building.
Although the duo has been paid only to transport the quintet, the pair is with the girls when the fence around the estate closes, locks and electrifies.
As 2015 closes, China’s leaders find themselves at a crossroads.
As a result, the country with the world’s most extensive system of price controls also has the highest inflation – as well as an ever-expanding police effort that jails retail managers for holding inventories and even closes the borders to prevent smuggling.
The nuclear crisis should be resolved through negotiations, before, in US President Barack Obama’s phrase, the window closes.
Moreover, the Italian story is unfolding as Greece closes in on an agreement in June about its exit late this summer from dependence on Europe’s bailout framework.
The world should use that door before it closes again.
To be sure, it closes a prolonged era of Egyptian politics.
Presume for the moment that the US closes down trade with China and Mexico – the first and fourth largest components of the overall trade deficit – through a combination of tariffs and other protectionist measures (including the proposed renegotiation of NAFTA and a Mexican-funded border wall).
Yet the window of opportunity closes quickly.
But the window of opportunity closes quickly in these and other post-conflict regions.
But the legislation cuts the corporate tax rate too much and closes too few loopholes to achieve anything close to revenue neutrality.
Yet even as inflation rises and the 77-year-old dictator tightens Internet access and closes the economic openings that encouraged self-employment in the mid-1990's, it is unlikely that Cubans will turn Castro out before he dies.
A monster has no moral responsibility and so cannot be held accountable; but even more seriously, designating someone a monster closes the door to possible rehabilitation.
Diplomatic ties could be damaged, too, if a more inward-looking UK closes its doors to African travelers and students seeking to enroll in British universities.
A mining town becomes a ghost town when the mine closes, because the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the movie theater no longer have the capacity to buy the “imported” food, medicine, and films they need.
Indeed, the real offense is the alarmism that closes minds to the best ways to respond to climate change.
When a local factory closes because a firm has decided to outsource to a supplier across the border, more is lost than the hundreds (or thousands) of jobs that move abroad.
Once again, the solar producers cover their costs exactly, since the subsidy of $0.05/kilowatt-hour closes the gap between the consumer price ($0.11/kilowatt-hour) and the producer cost ($0.16/kilowatt-hour).
A Europe that closes its door to those willing and able to enter will be a Europe that diminishes its own future.
They become soulless bodies, and the moral circle closes in to exclude them.
And no illiberal democracy can succeed to the extent that it closes itself off to cooperation.
If the Georgia-Armenia border closes down, Armenia chokes.
Imagine if Wall Street closes down because systems fail; no one trades, debts don't get paid, payments are not received leaving would-be recipients without liquidity and unable to meet their obligations.
The most likely course of Y2K is like when a big snowstorm hits - a city closes down for a few days and nothing much happens.
So what if the post office closes for a week- the US government was closed for a week or more last year and nobody really minded very much except for those dependent on disbursements of unemployment compensation or the delivery of passports.
But one hopes that SPD members reject the agreement on which they are now voting (the postal ballot closes on March 2).
What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.
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