Word: poppycock
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...Andy cannot imagine that the source of his ultimate undoing is within the family. Stop to think of it and you realize that Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, which was written in poisoned ink by Kelly Masterson, is some kind of ultimate answer to the "family values" poppycock that has polluted our socio-political discussions for so many years. But Lumet doesn't give us a lot of time for philosophical musings. This is the 83-year-old director's 45th film, and like all the best of them (Serpico, Prince of the City, The Verdict) he just...
...charges are "really poppycock," says Stockman; he had been engaged in "an epic struggle for survival." Everything he told the public reflected "a realistic and balanced view of the facts as I understood them," he says, although they turned out to be wrong. He himself was buying shares throughout the period that the company was going down the toilet. He agreed with a friendly television interviewer who declared that "they" - meaning the government - "are criminalizing optimism...
...Poppycock, matzah balls...
Monday-morning quarterbacking makes people think we could've done better. Poppycock! No one could have predicted Sept. 11. To sit back and scream "How could you miss this? You failed!" is stupidity at its worst. The complainers should come up with a procedure that would treat all threats with equal concern. MARCIA KULP York...
...having convinced themselves that they've eliminated racism. But for the most part, the powerful industrialized nations have not been racism's victims, but its perpetrators. And as easy as it is to beat up on India for denying caste oppression or the Sudan for its continued slavery, the poppycock of Britain's "slavery is a crime now that we're no longer practicing it; it was simply regrettable when we were doing it" reflects the arrogance of power - the West sets the agenda of what is admissible, simply because it can. So don't expect that after eight days...