"Marienbad" arrived riding the wave of two huge reputations: those of Mr. Resnais, which had been surging in the United States since the 1960 release of "Hiroshima Mon Amour," and of the screenwriter, Alain Robbe-Grillet, a leading light of the nouvel roman whose experimental novels "The Voyeur" and "The Erasers" had won acclaim.
But if the events of last month — the failure of Iceland's banks; the plummeting of its currency; the first wave of layoffs; the loss of reputation abroad — felt like a bad dream, Iceland has now awakened to find that it is all coming true.
The personal life of Paul Finchley Robbie Coltranee) is murkier than most, with a second wave of allegations dragging his reputation through ever-muddier ground.
This simple yet mind-boggling split screen effect is one of the most discussed scenes in Godard's new film, and it is one of the visual tricks that cements the 83-year-old Father of French New Wave's reputation as an innovator of film.
There will be some who worry that this new focus on the victims of sex crime will inspire a wave of bogus allegations, with reputations unfairly but terminally shredded, irrespective of the outcome in a courtroom.
But he departed the stage with a wave of affection and sympathy, his reputation for dignity and courage intact.
The long-awaited reincarnation of the dome has slipped up to two years behind schedule, the Guardian has established, at a time when Philip Anschutz, the American billionaire taking over the structure, is being forced to defend his reputation from a wave of attacks on the other side of the Atlantic.
His book comes at an inopportune moment for Goldman, which has largely disappeared from the spotlight after a wave of negative publicity damaged the bank's reputation.
Reputation's Price What is the value of reputation?
Thus, increasing returns seem to govern mechanisms of reputation formation.
