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Years later, Cooper wrote the screenplay for “Out of the Furnace” while listening to that album, an unwitting prelude to what would eventually bring the pair together.

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Coming from another breed of mom, this would be a prelude to prescriptive punishment.

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Such a move could also be a prelude to de facto martial law, cancelling elections and suspending other civil rights and freedoms.

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Many in Zion saw the stepped-up pressure as a prelude to a crackdown, but few anticipated it would be as large as it turned out to be, she said.

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The film is split into three parts - a prelude, followed by two versions of events told from the points of view of both Frankenstein and his creation.

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