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...dialogue, by scripters Brian Koppelman and David Levien, aims for smart and hits smarmy; and the actors' delivery of their lines, meant to show a relaxed wit, is perfunctory verging on read-through. With one exception. Gould, evoking the old-time Vegas when he learns how rotten Pacino is: "You and I both shook Sinatra's hand, and there's a code among the guys who shook Sinatra's hand." Pacino: "Screw Sinatra's hand...
...would like to write next, Neusner says, "I'd like to do a book with the Pope about Paul," whose letter, Romans, contains verses that have long bedeviled Jewish-Christian relations. He is half-joking. But what if the Pope said yes? What new wonder might emerge when two smart men agree to disagree but then keep talking...
...reserves, but it signals that the government wants to invest its dollar stash more aggressively. The deal was nicely timed--just before top Chinese officials arrived in Washington for talks aimed at reducing the bilateral trade deficit. "It's a safe bet. It's politically savvy and economically very smart," says Bank of America market strategist Joseph Quinlan. The Saudi plastics buy, in turn, is part of an effort to move up the economic food chain from pumping oil to making things of value out of it. The day after, the CEO of oil-field-services firm Halliburton practically begged...
...burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabita is despondent for a reason: she's pregnant and is about to try to get, with Otilia's help, an abortion - illegal at the time in Romania...
Like many of our academics today, Cornel West is an exceptionally smart man with surprisingly poor judgment. By last count, the black community is only 12% of the national population. Manifestly, a presidential candidate must cultivate support from the population at large. If Obama is to stand a chance, as I hope he will, he must take all the money he can get: black, red, Catholic, Jewish, and yes, Brother West, even “big white money...