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...writers and directors, and the cast, believe in the small world they reinvented each week? I think they believed in it as a TV reality. What?s more, they sold that reality to the audience with the entrepreneurial conviction Jim must have used on his clients. It was a slick construct, and it was good...
...procedures helping him, he could stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup; the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand...
...you’re the dancing type, there are plenty of awkward moments waiting for you. College parties tend to operate at a temperature of roughly 147 degrees. It’s no easy task to put on some slick dance moves when you and everyone else are drenched in sweat. Ever tried to dance with someone, only to watch them slide off your body like it was a ride at a water park? Awkward. My suggestion to guys is to avoid dancing. Chances are you are bad at it, and apparently girls just prefer to dance in a circle...
...Prestige, which he co-wrote with his brother, Jonathan, presents us with two magicians, at first friends but soon enough deadly rivals: Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), slick and romantically appealing, is a master of on-stage presentation; Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is his technical superior, but nowhere near so commanding a figure in the theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure...
...procedures helping him, he could stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup, the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand Bridget Welsh's viewpoint, "Damage assessment," was the best analysis I have read on this coup. But it did not allow for a scenario of the return of a working democracy by October 2007 if the military sticks to its promises...