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French maid? Too sexy. Captain Ahab? Too pretentious. These costumes strike just the right blend of clever and conversation-stopping. 1) Harvard football player dressed as convict 2) Lawrence Summers dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein (woman in science) 3) Kaavya Viswanathan dressed as Megan McCafferty 4) Derek Bok dressed as a zombie 5) HRC President dressed in a Village People outfit
...they look my age, and look like a student at the college, I’m not overly suspicious, unless their behavior makes me feel other ways,” she says. So those could be two freshmen sitting at the end of your table, or clever MIT students out on a late-night jog who got the munchies, or maybe even axe murderers. But don’t get any ideas. We wouldn’t want to make you paranoid...
Streisand, of course, could have been clever with her comeback, but she chose a different route. Although never subtle in anything that she has ever done, Streisand decided to be more blunt than usual. The singer had had enough, and in decidedly impolitic words Barbra let everyone else know...
...immature democracy, an ultra-rich and clever person could manipulate elections by buying votes from poor people, then take advantage of loopholes in the constitution; and with complicated, time-consuming government procedures helping him, he could stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup; the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand...
...object to an astounding transformation; and, finally "The Prestige," in which perhaps a life, but certainly the illusionist's always tenuous hold on his audience, is held in thrilling and suspenseful balance. This narrative structure analogizes rather neatly to the customary three-act movie plot and it is both clever and apt of Nolan (he of the backwardly told Memento) to underscore this point...