Word: crooked
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...apartment in North Philadelphia with the city's jagged skyline pointing up behind, Orphans traces the lives of Treat (Joe Pacheco) and Phillip (Steven Longmuir), two orphaned brothers in their 20s. Treat, a petty crook with violent tendencies, has kept his simple-minded younger brother Phillip alone in the house for years. Phillip's combination of childlike ignorance and unnerving acuity is at once beguiling and somewhat unbelievable...
...three roles have a taint of cliche: petty crook, idiot savant and mobster. What saves Orphans itself from cliche is the level of emotion that is maintained throughout. Playwright Lyle Kessler builds momentum nicely by shifting alliances and unearthing painful memories within this throwntogether family. A satisfyingly dramatic ending allows the two brothers to acknowledge the pain of their lives...
...CROOK COUNTY, OREGON: For the first time since the county lines were drawn in 1882, voters here were wrong about a presidential election: they picked Bush...
...know this hero business--one of the things you learn as you grow older is that life gets very complicated, weird actually," the small-time crook with a selfless streak, Bernie LaPlante tells...
...hotel room or while he was still a candidate. Denying a "five-year affair" is different from claiming a lifetime of marital fidelity. An advanced gambit is angrily rebutting a charge that was never made. When Richard Nixon claimed in the midst of Watergate, "I am not a crook," he was telling a literal truth. He was charged with the abuse of power -- not larceny...