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Early in the film, a chance reunion with an old acting-class buddy named Timothy, played by Crudup, sends him into an existential tailspin of doubt and regret.

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The U.S. bond market went into a tailspin, and Beijing’s counterpunch caused stocks to plummet.

When the U.S. tried to engineer a revival of its domestic industry a few years ago, China flooded the market with supply, throwing Western producers into a tailspin.

The real crash happened that year, after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and a series of bank failures, abetted by bad Federal Reserve policy, sent the economy and the market into a tailspin.

All of which raises a key question for Baltimore: Is the Ravens’ season already in a tailspin or can they rally to defy the odds and claw their way back into contention?

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