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.
It was not a prodigal's return to neoconservatism, from one simplicity to another.
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.
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.
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.
City Center, which is now beautifully renovated with a clear but cold acoustic, seems a comfortable setting for its prodigal child.
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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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.
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.
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