Word: cleverisms
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...think for the most part people at the Lampoon were clever and witty, and could do clever parodies and things like that, but George was laugh-out-loud funny,” says Crist. “It wasn’t a formal, studied, essayist sort of humor...
...well as our feelings of foreboding on his behalf. As we follow him deeper and deeper into his life of crime, we sense that, smart and daring though he is, he will not be able to resist his own heedlessness, those violent flashes of temper that wipe all clever calculations out of his brain...
...cases of high pay for poor performance. Can legislation put the fat cats on a diet? Recent British shareholder activism has encouraged Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt to prepare a paper looking at excessive board-room remuneration awards, but its ultimate recommendations remain uncertain. And in the end clever executives and accountants could find ways to circumvent legislation. It's up to shareholders to hold the cats' paws to the fire...
...Dark - is a parable of inner beauty defiled, except that, this time, the heroine gets to kill all her attackers. The film was also labeled anti-American, because that's today's fragrance. But Von Trier is mainly a cinema experimentalist, and Dogville is another of his clever ideas stretched to the breaking point. He resolved to make a movie with no sets, just the floor outline of the town's homes and stores, with empty door frames that slam after people have walked through them. It's a great notion for about 10 minutes, but not for the movie...
...synch their lines no matter what language they are speaking; objects like mattresses and wooden frames that, when shot, explode and shatter in the precise directions you'd expect. The plot involves a hostile alien takeover of the strangely named human habitation City 17, but that, like all the clever physics, is merely a means to the end of scaring the bejesus out of players. Easily the most terrifying creature is the Stalker, a War of the Worlds--style giant with 50-ft. legs and the ability to suck in reality itself and exhale it in an earsplitting sonic boom...