Word: masterminder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...include a plethora of sitcoms and the upcoming film adaptation of “Get Smart,” take obvious elements from their television experience. The film functions like a sitcom—unsurprisingly, given the writer’s background and that director Tom Dey was the mastermind behind “Showtime,” a Robert DeNiro/Eddie Murphy spoof about reality-based TV cop shows. The script juggles the main love story with numerous subplots—including one about a comical obsession with killing a mockingbird—to keep the audience from getting bored...
...time the Administration was chest-thumping about this victory in the war on terror, Townsend had to acknowledge that it is grappling with one of the worst examples of non-cooperation. Over the weekend, 13 convicted Al Qaeda members being held in a Yemeni jail escaped, including the reputed mastermind of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Townsend acknowledged that the jailbreak is "of enormous concern to us, especially given the capabilities and the expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions in prison...
...Richard Causey? Although the career accountant had kept a lower profile, Causey was scheduled to go on trial with Lay and Skilling. Like Andrew Fastow, the mastermind of Enron's shady financing, Causey reported directly to the top two execs. He handled the accounting for the "off--balance sheet partnerships" designed by Fastow that sank the Houston energy firm...
...philosophy and art—the nine chapters are called spirituality, martial arts, capitalism, comics, chess, organized crime, cinema, chemistry (read: drugs), and Wu-Slang Lexicon. There is no one like this man working in entertainment today.The Crimson interviewed the self-described “organizer, producer, and mastermind of the Wu-Tang Clan,” because he is promoting “Derailed,” the trashy new Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston flick, in which he plays Winston, the philosophical gun-toting sidekick of Owen’s cheatin’ man. PRINCE RAKEEMMany rappers, from...
...data show that such relatively big firms as Overstock.com and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia have been targets too. Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has launched a crusade against naked short selling, charging that an unnamed criminal "mastermind" is conspiring against his company. Byrne says the attacks have "put limits on the amount of capital we can raise, how fast we can grow and how many people we can employ." His company's stock, at $76 in January, has tumbled into the low $30s. Byrne filed an unfair-practices suit in August against Rocker Partners, which specializes in short selling. Rocker says...