Word: fooling
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...warming global temperatures, powerful storms and rising sea levels is completely ridiculous. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. The same could be said of New Orleans. The main lesson of Katrina is that you can't fool Mother Nature. Bruce Gary, RHINELANDER...
...faces a generation that takes gangsta rap as just another mundane marker in the cultural scenery. "It's collapsing because they can no longer fool the white kids," says Nickels. "There's only so much redundancy anyone can take...
...Antonioni might be an art-film director, but he was no fool. He knew that making films in English would help him reach a wider audience; hence Blowup, Zabriskie Point (1970) and The Passenger (1975). He spoke Hollywood's language without ever going Hollywood. Death Valley, the location for Zabriskie Point, was as close as he got to La-la Land...
...hard to convince voters you care about their values, he argued, if you're not even comfortable discussing them. "I'm not looking for people to add Bible verses to speeches in an artificial way," he says, pre-empting the charge that a little rhetorical repackaging won't fool anyone. "But it's important to let fellow citizens know where you are coming from...
...Only a fool would dare predict Afghanistan's future. But if the insurgents get their way, Kabul's renovated airport could get some real use in an exodus of Westerners...