At first only dimly visible, the dancers draw their outlines in water on the screens and step through the collapsing paper towards us.
They really shouldn't have — the argument in that paper collapsed under scrutiny almost the moment it was released.
Under the terms of his apprenticeship he was supposed to stay for three years, but the paper collapsed after one.
His libel suit against the paper collapsed, leading to this infamous headline and his resignation from government.
The man who was editing the News of the World when it was closed by Rupert Murdoch, and whose editorship of the Sunday Mirror ended after his paper collapsed a trial, is back – this time at Mort Zuckerman's New York Daily News.
The only two people on Wall Street to have been prosecuted for their roles in the crisis are a pair of minor Bear Stearns executives, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, whose internal hedge fund, stuffed with triple-A mortgage-backed paper, collapsed in the summer of 2007, an event that anticipated the crisis.
A rating agency (Fitch) first reviewed a small sample of nonprime loan files after the secondary market in nonprime loan paper collapsed and nonprime lending virtually ceased.
And then, after all the bullshit, when he could prevaricate, elocute, circumlocute, and evade no more, he collapsed like a paper bag emptied of air.
There is this famous finance professor at Columbia, who, several months before the Icelandic banking system collapsed, produced a paper saying that Iceland might be going through a bit of difficult stage, but it is a model for the rest of the world and so on.
Would readership collapse if papers didn't have Jose Mourinho and Alex Ferguson head to head across the back page?
In the United States, the apparent dominance of new technology is even greater, accelerated because the classified advertising that supported their papers collapsed faster than the display advertising that underwrote the financial models of their UK counterparts.
