Word: trickster
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...wouldn’t call him a trickster, but the nimbleness got ahead of others,” Gomes said...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...
...spent the money to do it. Everybody would be saying it was a brilliant move." Critics, however, say that among other things, Lacy grew too close to the Ramseys - she attended Patsy's funeral, they point out - and that she wasn't sufficiently skeptical of a mentally troubled trickster. If Lacy was duped, however, it was by a man perhaps as savvy as he is disturbed. In an extensive exchange of e-mail messages released by the DA upon the dismissal of the case, Karr anticipated doubts about his confession. In communicating with Colorado University Professor Michael Tracey, who eventually...
...companions the back of his hand. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he says, turned Canada 'into a people of whining, politically conformist welfare addicts' ... He describes the late Robert Maxwell, kleptocratic owner of the Daily Mirror and the New York Daily News, as 'an endomorphic ... poseur, fugitive and confidence trickster' ... [Black] is uncharacteristically cryptic about the future of newspaper publishing, noting simply that 'literacy and the printed word are not as out of fashion as many have feared...
This is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond. In his introduction to Astonishing Stories, Chabon calls this new high-low fiction "Trickster literature," and you can almost hear in that label the distant bugle call of a manifesto. And you can almost see the future of literature coming. Looks like it's going to be a page turner...