I'll never forget seeing George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son" performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem for a mostly black audience.
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Dodd, in turn, keeps welcoming Freddie part apostle, part prodigal son back into the fold.
It was not a prodigal's return to neoconservatism, from one simplicity to another.
City Center, which is now beautifully renovated with a clear but cold acoustic, seems a comfortable setting for its prodigal child.
China has acknowledged this, by promising Taiwan greater autonomy within its preferred one-China framework than either of those two prodigal ex-colonies.
And if Dan makes a real business out of these guitars, he might even shake off a reputation as a prodigal son.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien, Dead Accounts tells the story of a prodigal son who returns home to Cincinnati from New York City.
In part because its shares never plunged, Chubb probably does have a tad less upside right now, compared to the prodigal Allstate and other rivals.
The set's most humane film is "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (1967), directed by Schorm, who died in 1988 on the day before his 57th birthday.
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But as India's fortunes changed, the prodigal nephew returned, worked his way through a messy power struggle and eventually took over the lion's share of the empire.
Gingrich is also the prodigal son to conservatives, especially evangelicals.
Somewhere beneath the frippery, there is a whisper of political threat: if the Queen really was as prodigal and heedless as this, no wonder the mobs were on the march.
The story is simple: a teen-age boy, Xu Yun, leaves his poor rural village in an obsessive quest to find his prodigal and newly prosperous father in the big city of Zigong.
Instead of extending a hand to Italy, Spain and Portugal, Ms. Merkel rapped them on the knuckles, delivering a stern lecture on the need for more austerity among prodigal members of the European Union.
When the prodigal returned, the firm's loyal customer base, starved for years of innovative new computers, rushed to snap up the slick, if rather expensive, machines that Mr Jobs began to produce for them.
In times of economic woe, when normal patterns of consumption and investment are frozen, prodigal government spending can sometimes be the only way to break the vicious circle of declining demand and shrinking employment.
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For my money, when it comes to rock and roll, Jerry Lee is in an upper echelon triumvirate consisting of the father, the prodigal son, and the holy ghost Elvis being the father and Little Richard the holy ghost.
It was the election of Viktor Yanukovich as Ukraine's president in February that was seen in Moscow as paving the way for the return to the Russian fold of a prodigal son who went astray after the Orange revolution in 2004.
But from the driver's seat of our minivan, I had the definite feeling that Amherst would never be my town again, that the town itself wouldn't stand for it, that they didn't need a prodigal son, that a prodigal son was exactly what they didn't need.
The setting is a cramped, chilly room off a desolate courtyard, sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a poor, elderly couple, Gebo (Michael Lonsdale) and Doroteia (Claudia Cardinale), are haunted by the eight-year absence of their prodigal son, whose wife, Sofia (Leonor Silveira), they have taken in.
In "We Own the Night" Joaquin Phoenix is the prodigal son -- a nightclub manager in New York City in the late '80s -- who returns home to the fold, eventually earning the respect of his father and his brother, both of them detectives in the NYPD.
The moral motion of the film is fairly simple the return, and redemption, of a prodigal son but Gray steeps his tale in murky complication, and the staging of every scene, be it downbeat or frantic, is so assured that you barely notice the implausibilities. (Bobby and Joseph, for instance, hardly look like brothers.) The rain-drenched car chase, halfway through, is reason enough to see the film.
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