Word: dupee
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...this clownish dupe, Keneally also knows, finally outmanipulated all her manipulators. To Keneally she is the incarnation of an idea whose time had come - the peasant striding into the council of kings and lords of the church. As rude as common fare, she serves notice on the feudal system that knighthood is no longer in flower. As she lifts the siege at Orléans and pushes her balky Dauphin with the "fat, un happy lips" toward his coronation at Rheims, she is hurrying onstage not a monarchy but the modern nation-state. The descendants of this Joan...
...whiff of opportunism to his posture if it were not perfectly consistent with the views he has expressed in his 21 years in the Senate. He is an unrepentant cold warrior who still refers to "Reds" and "Commies" in his private conversation. Fearing that the Soviet Union means to dupe the U.S. most of the time, he has supported big defense spending, the anti-ballistic-missile system and the Trident submarine...
Bogdanovich rescues you from the murky waters of loss with the comedy of a rambunctious ten-year-old running devious circles around a man old enough to be her father. The funniest parts of the film are the con-games they play--Ryan double talking to confuse the dupe, Tatum crying to win his sympathies...
...creator gives me the honor of finally driving Dwayne over the brink. Now that I'm free, I want to deny that I ever existed in this novel; I was the unwilling dupe in a mad production. Vonnegut won't get off by claiming he's clearing his head "of all the junk in there." He can't expect me, his own creation, to sympathize with him when he tells his schizophrenic self in a bar in his own novel that he's writing a "very bad book...
...second camp, which is united in its opposition to Castillo, argues that he has misinterpreted the position and the power of the Mexican president. They claim that a student party would be bought off by the president like other protest groups in the past. Castillo is Echeverria's dupe, they say, and the president would exhibit the impotent student party as proof to Western visitors that he accepts opposition. Their utter distrust for the system has led these student groups to more radical activity than forming political parties. Some groups have joined the guerrilla movements in the mountainous states surrounding...