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Created by Joshua Zetumer, who adapts Patrick Radden Keefe‘s multiple award-winning 2018 nonfiction book, subtitled “A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland,” it focuses instead on a handful of characters, their activities and relationships.

A raw fable about looking up instead of feeling down, “Bird” shows writer-director Andrea Arnold back in a familiar milieu of cramped youth on the periphery, making do with what little is available, seesawing between explosive anger and playful respite.

Will those kinds of destabilizing gambits be on the table, or is Trump instead going to be stocking the administration with incompetent charlatans who, like him, are really more interested in posting on social media and seeing their faces on TV than in doing the nuts-and-bolts work of instituting authoritarianism in America?

On starting the job, Rachael says she was not given any personal assistant work to do and instead felt like a "companion", attending dinners and "getting to know him".

The latest homeless count did show some long-awaited progress: The number of unsheltered homeless people — those who live outside instead of in a shelter or other temporary housing— dropped 5% in the county and 10% in the city.