Word: cons
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...left behind?In “Nightingale,” a father drops his son off at a military academy “for his own good.” As he drives away he becomes paranoid that the academy is not really a school but a huge con to kidnap and destroy young men. The story asks pertinent questions about the threatening allure of the military: the strength of character it builds despite the dominance of the institution over the individual. These questions are juxtaposed against the protagonist’s ephemeral awareness of the countryside?...
...Rififi scenario was replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick...
...CON: Nearly invisible national profile...
...CON: McCain campaign already well-stocked with current and former lobbyists...
...coming—until he came upon one who refused to shake his hand. “Tu me salis,” or “You dirty me,” said the unidentified man, to which Sarkozy crudely retorted, “Casse-toi alors, pauvre con...