Word: caper
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Both Out of Sight, his smart, sexy 1998 George Clooney-Jennifer Lopez caper, and The Limey, a small-scale 1999 revenge thriller starring Terence Stamp, were testaments to his renewed confidence and fine-tuned techniques: the sharp cuts and occasionally free-floating dialogue that propel his stories. The onscreen heat he elicited between Clooney and Lopez proved that Soderbergh also had a talent for getting the best from his actors. Roberts' work in Erin Brockovich has scored a Golden Globe nomination and a Best Actress award from the National Board of Review...
...shenanigans that I have come to expect and even admire from our family dog during Thanksgiving. While normally Thanksgiving is the most languid of all the holidays, consisting of heroic acts of gluttony followed by digestion-induced catatonia, I could always trust Sadie to pull some sort of caper that would derail the otherwise smooth-running family affair...
...Earlier tonight, the networks were more or less calling Bush DOA even as he lived and breathed. Following the Florida caper, the networks are now not ready to declare Gore dead until the body decomposes: On MSNBC, political analyst Patrick Caddell said that if not for the snafu, the networks would have called the state for Bush by now. But they're going to read the eulogies, anyway, all night if necessary...
...mean sneezing? Anyway, there's an outburst, a blast of something that aspires to ecstasy. But unlike sex, laughter (unless it is bitter, derisive laughter, the weapon of scorn) has a gregarious quality: shared, social. Why not? Comedy originated with phallic pageants in ancient Greece, in which men would caper around wearing immense penises. Lots of laughs...
...weeks since a videotape and more than 100 pages of George W. Bush's debate-preparation material landed on the desk of one of Al Gore's closest advisers (who turned them over to the FBI), rumors and fabrications about who was behind the caper have whizzed between the campaigns and the press. The facts have been on holiday. Except at the FBI, where agents have been interviewing the handful of Bush aides who had access to the material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That...