Word: cleverisms
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With its clumsy plot, insufficient ending and sparse clever lines, Abandon leaves much to be desired...
...island near Seattle, a mental institution, a former horse-breeder with a disturbing family history and the bottom of a very deep well. And just when you start to think that the movie is going to have a cute, lame and satisfying resolution, there’s a pretty clever twist at the end that leaves you with a somewhat sour and uneasy taste in your mouth—that is, exactly what you should want from a movie of this variety...
...same time he has slipped into self-imposed obscurity, avoiding the press--he returned Time's phone calls but asked not to be quoted--and staging his readings as cryptic, Andy Kaufman--style happenings. And then there's his jars-of-dirt store. It could just be clever marketing--this kind of behavior discourages media attention the way napalm discourages fire--but even Velocity is being brought out coyly, in an initial printing of a mere 10,000 copies, available only at alternative bookstores. Is Eggers--not to put too fine a point on it--messing with...
...users, and the losers are going to be those who are higher users. The suggestion is that this plan will change people's behavior, so that the overall cost will be lower, but unfortunately it all depends on exactly how it's designed. If you don't do something clever with the cap, very quickly you will have more and more people going into the insurance. All the big companies--Humana, PacifiCare, UnitedHealthCare, Cigna, Aetna--have their own models...
...strategic game progresses, terms such as ANATHEMA, ETHANOL and the mysterious QUAI grace the table. TINTED becomes TRIDENT, BOOST becomes ROBOTS, and Eisenkraft becomes more upset by Daniels’ lead. After his opponent makes a clever move and then an insincere apology for it, Eisenkraft retorts, “That’s okay, I slept with your sister.” Daniels scores again, to which Eisenkraft adds, “And your brother...