Word: sharpsters
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...news that public condemnation of the con man is mixed with private admiration for his sting. More than 50 years ago, V.L. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought noted that the sharpster appealed to the hidden desires of an otherwise hardworking, pious people. Lindberg considers the ambivalent attitude to be not hypocrisy but rather a theoretical expression of American genius. A con man may impoverish widows and orphans, but he cannot do so without first creating confidence. And confidence, says the author, who is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, is what America...
...crafts' Cajun owners, whose tempers are not improved when the weekend soldiers fire blanks at them. Indeed, that is all it takes to turn a war game into a deadly game. The locals are cruel, cunning and know their soggy country. The Guardsmen-except for two, a city sharpster (Keith Carradine) and a tough transfer from Texas (Powers Boothe)-are inept, panicky and, in at least one case, mentally unstable. The odds on surviving the murderously vengeful swamp rats are obviously short-so obvious and so short, in fact, that the film eventually becomes more of an exercise...
...appears that after a collision with another car the social service center was assured of $100 in damages. Sharpster lawyers of the guilty party, however, countercharged that the car was illegally registered...
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