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...machine back to the mid-'60s. In the spirit of Catch Me If You Can, it signals its retro intentions with midcentury-modern production design, a jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your faith on charm and panache. Just watch your wallet...
...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed?Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor...
Abramoff moved money in numerous ways-not just to cheat his clients but also to pay for brazen junkets and cloak the ethically (and legally) dubious machinery of his enterprise...
Directed by Mikael HåfströmThe Weinstein Company1/2 starBad things happen when people cheat in relationships: break-ups and divorces; sexual and emotional inadequacies; listening to Coldplay. Rarely though, does infidelity lead to life-threatening blackmail by a French thug or the martyrdom of The Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA. In my limited experience, at least.However in “Derailed,” the appallingly bad star vehicle for post-“Friends” Jennifer Aniston and never-Bond Clive Owen, anything is possible.The “thrilling” plot?...
...central fund, for subsequent equal distribution among Houses.The Harvard campus has been cleverly divided into relatively small, manageable, contiguous communities since the 1930s. To fail to take advantage of this arrangement—even as most of the required infrastructure is already in place—is to cheat undergraduates of the quality of residential life we ought to be able to expect. By making House funding uniform and directing it centrally, the College can take its first tentative steps towards putting its House communities back into proper use.After 75 years, it’s about time.Adam Goldenberg...