Word: outwitting
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...early forties, and particularly those that Hollywood churned out when we were fighting in it (which are lulling and sentimental and silly), this comedy is sharp and wicked as can be. That's Lubitach, I guess. The scene is the German occupation of Warsaw, where Benny and friends outwit the Nazis. The humor is often best because it comes so dangerously close to bad taste-people got mad at it when it came out because of the subject matter, but it's nowhere near as vulgar as the respectful shlock made in those years with great legs swooning when...
...owes the IRS some $15,000, and to outwit them he has even sold the rights to Dear America to a community organization for which he works. "I can't own anything," he explains in a soft voice. "Those IRS people are Like a gang of thugs." His first marriage, which produced two sons, ended in divorce in 1967. Now he lives with his second wife, Freelance Editor-Artist Therese Machotka, in a three-room flat over a store in a racially mixed Washington, D.C., neighborhood. He exudes what a friend has described as "the ethereal, inexplicable cheerfulness...
Whoever wrote the article on Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper is suffering from a terminal case of cutesie. Normally I would have groaned or hissed at the atrocious gags and half-witted attempts to outwit MTM's superwits, but I didn't have enough energy left to react. After all, I had just been nearly punnelled to death. (Mrs.) Kathryn Brock San Diego...
...Study Fear, ignorance is bliss if it enables the hero to overcome terrors from which wiser men would flee. In Hans My Hedgehog, ugliness is a curse to be broken by magic. In Pitcher's Feathered Bird and Brother Gaily, cleverness and sharp practice can outwit the Devil, even the keeper of heaven's gate. Above all, the tales are sweaty with human nature. Time and again, the message seems to be: "Don't tinker with the order of things." Yet this message is repeatedly mocked by the irrepressible truth that man is an incurable tinkerer...
During the days of the cold war, it was widely believed that the wily Russians would, unless watched with the greatest suspicion, outwit the simple-hearted Americans at every turn. The myth has turned out to be true-in a most embarrassing way. Last year the Soviet Union, needing grain because of serious crop failures, sent a delegation to hole up in a New York hotel to buy wheat-440 million bushels of it. The U.S., long plagued by grain surpluses, obligingly held the export price of wheat at $1.63 per bu. by subsidizing farmers and grain dealers...