Word: cleverisms
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Danny Rubin's story is a clever metaphorical fable about moviemaking. Actors endure endless retakes of the same scene, with new improvs, trying to keep it fresh on the umpteenth take. Eventually, Phil knows the action so well, he can literally direct it: "A gust of wind. A dog barks." And finally he is the writer, changing history by anticipating it. But this Chinese-puzzle-box movie has a deeper message inside. It says that most folks' lives are like Phil's on Groundhog Day: a repetition, with the tiniest variations, of ritual pleasures and annoyances. Routine is the metronome...
...unruly boor. From the authors' account, Bush got no help at all from his top advisers Scowcroft and Robert Gates, who offered him unremittingly bad advice about what was happening in the Soviet Union. In Bush's first year, Scowcroft warned that in Gorbachev, the U.S. faced the "clever bear syndrome." Then two years later he portrayed Gorbachev as a Soviet Lincoln standing against forces of Soviet secession, while chiding junior CIA analysts for "pushing Yeltsin...
...When I was in law school I devised a clever way to beat the draft by joining the Marines later," Ryan explained in an interview in his Holyoke Center office last week...
Cohen and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris will soon unveil their pioneering cartography. Thanks to a series of clever shortcuts, the French team's map will be available two years ahead of the schedule U.S. scientists set for themselves. Though somewhat rudimentary, Cohen's charts will make it easier for researchers to track down and isolate single genes scattered along the length of human chromosomes. "We don't want to say that we have beaten the Americans," the 41-year-old geneticist protests. "We like to compete, but not on a nationalistic...
Although moments of great writing and clever gags abound, the show is at times dull and, after some very witty opening scenes, fails to sustain interest for the duration of its two-hour running time...