Word: cleverisms
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...hook. But the new Afghan army of 26,000 is unreliable, and the new police force of 56,000 is 90% illiterate. Even more worryingly, some Iraqi terrorist tactics, such as suicide bombings and roadside explosives, have been showing up more frequently in Afghanistan. So what started as a clever political sidestep to allow the Europeans to make up with Washington without going to Iraq now seems a lot less clever. It may end up doing more harm than good - and leave the alliance looking, once again, for a viable reason to exist...
...little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage to get off a few smart references and clever spoofs. The detective in charge of the Hood case is a frog who dresses and acts like William Powell’s Nick of the classic “Thin Man” films, and The Wolf (Patrick Warburton), actually a misunderstood investigative reporter, is a carbon copy of Chevy...
...question of whether caffeine makes you smarter. And without a latte?with three shots of espresso today instead of the regular two?I wouldn't feel equal to the task. Experience tells me that a strong dose of caffeine inevitably makes me more alert, focused, quick-witted, clever. As far as I'm concerned, the case is already closed...
...critics have mostly sniffed at what they perceive as another laboriously lush Lloyd Webber score and clumsy lyrics from the usually clever Zippel. Agreed, agreed, and doesn't matter. What's impressive about this adaptation of the Wilkie Collins mystery novel is how it moves. I don't refer only to the patented Trevor Nunn turntable that, for about the 18th time since the director used it in Les Mis?rables, forces the actors to scamper around the stage like rats on a treadmill. I mean the moving scenery: all video projections by designer William Dudley. In your theater seat...
...something like that. Jujitsu is an ancient and honorable political strategy: if you are clever, you can upend your opponent by leveraging the force of his own assertions. But these are not clever times in Washington. The President has taken to the manic repetition of the word victory, apparently on the advice of a Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, a new addition to the National Security Council staff. Feaver conducted a cold-blooded review of recent polling and concluded that the American public would be more tolerant of the carnage if victory, whatever that means, were the likely result...