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...idea is clever and well-presented, we approve," Pittenger said. "But when the formation is just plain crude and not disguised, we have to step...
...Band thought the formation was clever; the administration thought it was filth...
Elio Petri's A Quiet Place in the Country is a fine, unsettling ghost movie. But the spooks in this story are made of neuroses, not ectoplasm, and they haunt the mind, not the attic. Petri is crafty enough not to explain his spirits away, but clever enough at the same time to provide a rational explanation of all the freaky goings...
...advisers throughout the Syrian army, was unaware of Damascus' intention to invade. The Russians may not have known the extent of the thrust, however, Moscow made every public pose of trying to check the fighting. Yet some U.S. analysts speculated that the Russians might have been playing a clever double role: instructing their advisers with the Syrian army to let the tanks roll, but to appear as the peace saver by pulling them back if they failed. It was not necessarily that the Soviets wanted Hussein to fall, but rather that they did not want the guerrillas crushed. It appeared...
...clever advertising ploy, then," the reporter suggested, "to get Mommy and Daddy to subscribe...