augury

“My life and myself were born under the sea,” she wrote, under the augury of “the star of Aphrodite.”

“We have a city founded by the auspices and augury,” the Roman historian Livy wrote.

Remarkably, Kushner’s augury of a world coming apart holds true three decades later, including his prognostications about the dangers of climate change and the radical partisanship of the judiciary.

The original Hammer, in a weird augury of the recently unveiled Orange County Museum of Art’s new facility, opened to the public before the building was finished.

The film comes to us under equally fine auguries — and auspices.