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Should a decline occur, they become captivated by the carnage and believe a bigger decline is coming.

“The residents in particular, and some of the faculty, were captivated by the dot-com bubble,” said Burry.

Strangely, one of the show’s most captivating songs, “Pavane for a Dead Lizard,” is about a reptile that starved to death because of Victoria’s negligence.

As Mr. Dyer becomes captivated by literature, “Homework” builds toward his painful but inevitable separation from his parents, both of whom died in 2011.

Then, weeks later, Californians became captivated by a special election to reconfigure the state’s congressional districts — which set off a furious, expensive and high-stakes political battle that could help decide which party controls the U.S.