Word: joking
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...funniest lines, which is saying something. She had stiff competition, especially from the happy idiot and failed Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, played by Megan L. Amram ’10. But what made Rich’s performance special was the desperation and fear lurking behind every joke. At the end of her final monologue, speaking into the recorder, she asked Nixon a question: How do you trust a government where each party is constantly telling you not to trust the other one? How is that not like a father telling his scared kid, “Your mommy...
...contention that France, Europe, or even the global economy isn't already in a recession that's likely to get worse, is a joke," says David Naudé, chief economist for the euro zone at Deutsche Bank in Paris. "The unexpected mini-advance in France notwithstanding, the news is bad, and all forecasts indicate the fourth quarter will be even worse...
...said. More hurtful was her refusal to give him attention. "If I wanted to spend time with her, I had to ask, but it was always too much trouble for her to come off the game to spend time with me, so the marriage was a bit of a joke." (See pictures of World of Warcraft...
That kind of bad guy is no joke these days, so screenwriters Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pick their Quantum villain from Column A. Greene is a zillionaire tycoon who uses environmental philanthropy to mask his plan to divert water from the peasants of South America. (Bolivia is the new Chinatown.) Amalric, the French actor often seen in harried, sympathetic roles like the paralyzed writer in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is effectively reptilian here, his whispers tinged with menace, his smile hinting at sadism...
...closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like a dour pair, Haggis and Forster let them off the leash every now and then. Despite Vesper’s painfully felt absence, Bond still lets himself seduce fellow agent Strawberry Fields (no joke), while a tipsy Camille takes pleasure in haranguing Greene in front of several wealthy donors at a party. You could almost imagine the two dating. Forster’s trigger finger itches through the whole movie (I don’t think there are more than three conversations...