Word: devious
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...basic problem is that you never quite understand why Rachel would marry Mark and stay in love with him. Nicholson has this sideways glance that is supposed to be sexy but makes him look devious. In addition, compared to yuppie Rachel, Nichsolson is old; in fact, he looks about the same age as Rachel's father. The one thing that Nicholson does do well in Heartburn is sing badly and often...
Even by Senate standards, the provision was a triumph of devious verbosity. It granted a special tax break on corporate debts "if such indebtedness was originally incurred before May 30, 1985, by a domestic corporation which was incorporated on March 18, 1983, in Delaware, and which indebtedness was subsequently transferred to a domestic affiliate which was incorporated on October 17, 1890, and whose principal place of business is in California . . ." and so on and on through 131 words. The purposes of this lush verbiage: 1) to make certain that the favor would go to just one company, Unocal...
...Jack's devious efforts to engineer that unlikely event (and stay within the movie's realistic frame) require some fairly desperate contrivances. But they alternate with grace notes, like a dinner at which Jack and Reno attempt to reconcile with their estranged wives while following the Monday-night football game. Williams' portrayal of a man disheveled but not defeated by history is first-class, and so is Russell's as a man chilled by the fear that his legend exceeds the truth. Theirs is a matchup worthy of instant replay...
...ability to move the practice of politics out of smoke-filled rooms and into the chambers of the yearning human heart. Conventional political morality, to which both these films retreat in good-hearted confusion, is inadequate to deal with such creatures. Art conceivably is. But today, media far more devious than a radio mike await the next Huey Long. To take the measure of his threat, art will have to be shrewder and more sensitive than either of these movies...
Feeling important, if a little hungry, I set off for OCS-OCL to look for a summer job. Maybe someone would hire a devious turncoat. I couldn't help chuckling at a poster touting Sylvester Stallone as Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man of the Year. This time, the Beast grabbed me by the throat. "Imperialist dog," it growled, "Rambo-loving fascist! I bet you step on Third World nations before breakfast...