Her epigraph -- taken from Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande" -- forewarns us that we're in for something a little more complicated than crusading social fiction: "I have been watching you; you were there, unconcerned perhaps, but with the strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in sunlight, in a beautiful garden".
Phil is forever expecting, taking, or making calls, although we never see the stars to whom, or of whom, he chats — not because he's a fraud but because the movie gods of that epoch were and remain, to anyone of Allen's vintage, beyond human reckoning, and certainly beyond impersonation.
It's the kind of story which exists in the past tense – a vivid childhood memory – and I was forever expecting a narrative voiceover from the grownup Ellis to come in, as if in an episode of TV's The Wonder Years, to tell us that after that summer, things would never be the same again.
We have been sucked in by one-dimensional storylines and misogynistic advertising hooks for years, taking the word of teen magazines as law, forever expecting cookie-cutter happy endings for cookie-cutter characters.
This means that even if you go on a maddening hot streak (which is the best time to stop playing... forever), you should expect a slightly more maddening cold streak in the future.
Unlike in a family, employers should have no expectation that employees will be with them forever, nor should they expect them to make long-term sacrifices for the sake of their organization's success.
Or maybe celebrities who enter the political ring will change forever what we actually expect of traditional politicians.
6. Grievers are changed forever -- Those who expect grievers to eventually get back to their old selves, will be quite disappointed.
The market drops, we haven't had a big drop in seemingly forever, but you should expect a 10% or more drop at some point every year.
"And now you expect to live forever".
