Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are provided in stead by a busy and overbearing musical score. The film's story begins to move in fits and starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine...
...make me happy, and when she couldn't and tried to talk to me, I was too wrapped up to listen." If Hoffman were still the glib hustler of the early part of the film, this self-recriminating speech would be a jolt-a screenwriter's ruse. But Hoffman's performance has so carefully delineated the alterations in Ted that his generous confession of past sins seems completely natural...
...would have devastating consequences for American interests in Iran. Vance disagreed, and advised the President to grant the Shah a temporary visa. Carter was glad to make the humanitarian gesture. The Tehran government was assured that the Shah was indeed a sick man, that his visit was not a ruse to seek permanent residency and had no political purpose. Iranian authorities warned that the Shah's medical
...wedding day, Rosabella is appalled to discover the ruse, but she marries Tony, who has broken his leg. Lonely and vulnerable, she spends the wedding night with Joe. As she tends Tony, she grows to love him, but pregnancy will out, and in a temper-tossed finale Tony forgives her, presumably forever...
Kissinger's arrival in Peking was set for July 9; the cover was a lengthy "information trip" through Asia beginning July 1 and taking him to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, whence he slipped away by means of an elaborate ruse. Among other things, this involved a predawn drive to Chaklala Airport with Kissinger wearing sunglasses and a hat "to ensure that no stray pedestrian spotted me? an unlikely contingency at that hour in Islamabad, where my name was scarcely a household word." During his flight to Peking, Kissinger recalled how John Foster Dulles had refused to shake Chou...