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...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon professor of the civilization of France, for example, has written editorials on the topic for publications like the The New York Review of Books and The Boston Globe. While he is no Middle East expert, he says he has chosen to write because it involves American foreign policy--a topic he teaches...
...Obviously it's rather ambitious," says Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffman, who will tri-teach the course with Professor of Government Peter A. Hall and Assistant Professor of Government Thomas C. Ertman...
Gerhardt punctuated his remarks by presenting copies of the book--bound in Moroccan goatskin and valued at $375 each--to several of the most prominent guests at the event, including Stanley H. Hoffmann, the Dillon professor of the Civilization of France, and John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus...
...this new concentration is staffed is a central issue," Dillon Professor on the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffmann said yesterday. "Everything costs lots of money...