This article investigates how The Hole allegorizes gender hierarchy through the evolving relationship of
the man upstairs and the woman downstairs through a hole in the "concrete" ceiling, the woman's anachronistic musical fantasies, and water that brings out the common humanity between the two sexes.
Gender hierarchy and environmental crisis in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole
"They may think you go off and sit in a corner and commune with
the man upstairs and come back and say, 'Right, I've been told the answer'."
Blair 'God nut' fears
Having HIV means making some changes in the way you live, but you live until
the man upstairs says it's your time to go.
I can!
This is a big day for us and if
the man upstairs is on our side, I think this horse could develop into one who could give Mr [Paul] Nicholls' great white hope (Kauto Star) a scare up the Cheltenham hill.
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"God," said the rabbi, "is not a terrorist.") But it's not entirely clear what such an approach means in practical terms, in a world where people don't routinely converse with the Supreme Being-unless you count Heather McDonald's satiric suggestion in Slate that people should stop donating to religious institutions and attending services in order to show their displeasure to
the Man Upstairs.
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The roommate told police that he had helped
the man upstairs earlier in the day.
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I believe
the man upstairs will look after me one way or another.
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Naturally,
the man upstairs was none too pleased by this, and therefore smote mankind with a variety of different dialects so that no one could understand the other in the ensuing babble.
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And special appearance of Michael Palin as
the man upstairs.
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"There's only one person who knows that, and that's
the man upstairs," Us Magazine quoted her as saying at a Subway in London.
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"After gaining entry via the unlocked back door, the officers found
the man upstairs hanging some feet from the floor with a dog chain tight around his neck.
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With his '59 Gibson hollow body, mouth harp and electrified stomp board, his gospel is sly enough to charm the devil, and the hip-shake boogie irresistible enough to get
the Man upstairs to come down and share a bottle with him.
Drunk, crazy and blue
To solve the mystery of
the man upstairs, the Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet - he must pass himself off as a perfectly normal human being, and share a flat with Craig Owens (guest star James Corden).
Doctor Who and the man upstairs
Around 10.30am:
The man upstairs hears screams and thumping.
Countdown to tragedy
The hosts crossed the line three times only to be correctly denied on each occasion by
the man upstairs, before Adam Ashley-Cooper finally crossed in the 63rd minute to seal his side's first win in five Tri Nations appearances this season.
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