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Jasper Whyte calls all of his associates and friends (few in number) to his house (on a night with plenty of rain, thunder, and lightning) to give away all of his estate before an inheritance tax would lessen the amount.
The lightning, the cut and the camera and most of all the music are so tension-seeking it really gets on my nerves: e.g.
The story is horrendous, everytime the kid mentions his dad lightning flickers in the backround, which is extremely fake.
This is a kind of "morality play," featuring a young albino man who has superhuman intellect and psychic powers ostensibly due to his mother having been killed by lightning while he was still in utero.
The dialogue is lightning paced and flows quickly from one character to the next without a break in between.
The Forty-Year Palestinian TragedyForty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
Certainly, few observers looking in 1978 at the smoldering embers of the Cultural Revolution, or at the seeming ruination of the post-1989 years, thought China would emerge as the lightning rod of the world’s developmental hopes.
The relationship between India and the US has evolved from one of cool distance to strategic proximity in a generation – lightning fast for geopolitics.
Israel’s lightning victory recalls Hegel’s dictum about “the impotence of the winners.”
Even as fast-food chains have become a lightning rod for criticism on the topic of obesity, they continue to attract consumers within America’s tight-knit minority communities, particularly among their young people, who are less likely to reach their full potential if they are burdened by health problems associated with obesity.
Ahn has already become a lightning rod for all of the country’s anti-Park and anti-President Lee Myun-bak forces, attracting young people as well.
Or you could pay eight times the going rate for a “lightning call” – but even lightning struck slowly in India in those days, so a lightning call took a half-hour instead of the usual three or four (or more) to be connected.
Israel’s post-1967 orgy of political and military triumphalism blinded its leaders to the opportunities for peace that its lightning military exploits created.
At a time when change happens at lightning speed, there is a perception that formal rule-making is too slow to keep up.
This so-called supply-side argument, first advanced in support of the Reagan-era tax cuts, has been a lightning rod in US fiscal policy debates ever since.
This implies a ray of hope for a bilateral relationship – the most important in Asia – that over the past two decades has been battered by Japan’s reluctance to face its past, which has become a lightning rod for over-heated nationalist sentiment on both sides.
The communiqué became a lightning rod for Thaksin’s opponents at home, spearheaded by the People’s Alliance for Democracy.
Instability just strikes like lightning.
That said, the exchange rate has received far too much focus as a lightning rod for concerns over China’s growing engagement in the global economy.
The origin of his “total football” philosophy of keeping possession of the ball with quick, short passes and lightning switches from defense to offense was Ajax, Amsterdam, in the late 1960’s.
Either it is like lightning, striking some unlucky woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time (an isolated, mysterious event, caused by some individual man’s sudden psychopathology), or it is “explained” by some seductive transgression by the victim (the wrong dress, a misplaced smile).
Now everything changed like lightning.
Just as in the US and Europe, immigration – not from Muslim countries, but from neighboring states – could provide a convenient lightning rod.
One is likelier to be struck by lightning than to be killed by a terrorist.
But this reply fails to deal with the suffering of those who drown in floods, are burned alive in forest fires caused by lightning, or die of hunger or thirst during a drought.
What historians have known for 2,000 years – and what the eighteenth century’s classical economists also knew – suddenly struck the new breed of mathematical economists in the 1990’s like a flash of lightning: prosperity depends on good government.
Today’s crises reflect the lightning speed of an interconnected world.ampnbsp;
In May, the WannaCry ransomworm attack affected dozens of the UK’s National Health Service trusts, and spread globally at lightning speed.
Michel RocardTrump’s Gathering Trade WarNEW HAVEN – During his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump used foreign trade as a lightning rod in his supposed defense of the beleaguered American middle class.
NAFTA became a lightning rod for complaints about globalization, capitalism, and the decline of organized labor.
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