Word: switches
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...fight on her penthouse terrace with another scheming scheming woman, who plunges to her death on the sidewalk below. "Fell right on her face," a bystander observes. "They wouldn't be able to tell who it is." Marshall, lurking out of sight, overhears this: cue the identity switch! It's one of those movies where a slight style change keeps people from recognizing the lead character. Superman had his spectacles; Marshall has a new hairdo. The movie needed a makeover...
...corporate culture, which once valued literacy, numeracy, high GPAs and the ability to construct a simple sentence. No doubt there are still workplaces where such achievements are valued, but when I set out as an undercover journalist seeking a white-collar corporate job for my book Bait and Switch, I was shocked to find the emphasis entirely on such elusive qualities as "personality," "attitude" and "likability." Play down the smarts, the career coaches and self-help books advised, cull the experience and exude a "positive attitude...
Ehrenreich is an essayist and the author of the books Bait and Switch and Nickel and Dimed
...Over the years, the city has had to switch seats and take the side of the police, disputing that the city of Chicago should hand out a nickel over such claims. But Chicago has paid, and dearly - attorneys' fees and settlements have totaled in the millions - after concerns were brought by politicians and civil and human rights groups, including Amnesty International. Egan and his chief deputy, Boyle, were appointed in April 2002 by the county?s chief criminal judge specifically to investigate Burge after much community outcry that stemmed from repeated media reports on the alleged crimes...
...originally called this film The Passion of the Clerks. Why did you change it? Fans and those who weren't fans agreed it was a terrible title, a one-note joke. I was happy with Clerks II. There's no bait and switch with a II in the title...