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...believes less in politicians than in personal enterprise, even though her experience has been mixed at best. She and Mike have tried a few "get-rich-quick schemes," she says, selling a line of home products--water filters, shampoos, vitamins--to friends and relatives; signing up new customers for a long-distance telephone company; even investing $5,000 in a scheme to provide leasable race cars to weekend thrill seekers, which has so far produced only two takers. All these businesses have yielded more loss than profit...
...study science, history, math and French in those crumbling classrooms despite a 4 1/2-year civil war raging around them. No longer. The war is just about over, and Kabul's new rulers, the Taliban, have firm notions about the peace: it will be piously, even pitilessly, Muslim. In that scheme there's no place for young women learning French. "I cry seeing the classrooms locked," says the school's caretaker. "A mullah accompanied by several armed Taliban came and demanded the keys. They told me the school would be turned into a madrasah," a religious school for boys...
That is in the ladies' clever and gutsy scheme to separate $2 million from Ceasar (Joe Pantoliano), who is keeping Violet. He's a hateful lout, so there are multiple pleasures to be found in watching him being maneuvered toward comeuppance by characters everyone can love as underdogs. The Wachowskis have the predilection for loopy camera setups common to first-time directors, but their hearts are in the right transgressive place, and their film will tide some of us over until Quentin gets...well...unbound...
...ideals or principles. Instead, Flaherty lives quite happily for the rush of weaving the lies and quarter truths that will mend his boss's innumerable gaffes. When Mayor Randall Winston (played by Barry Bostwick with an unfortunate excess of dimwittedness) slights the gay community, Flaherty jauntily cooks up a scheme to convince the press that the administration is not bigoted by trying to force a straight staff member to pretend...
Everyone walking around me was wearing a slight variation on the same color scheme. You've seen it, the Gap line: inoffensive, uninspiring and uninspired, with an occasional light blue thrown in for creative good measure. Almost all were wearing jeans and most everyone had something tied around his or her waist. Although these people didn't look like they'd stepped off the pages of a J. Crew catalogue, it appeared as though they tried very hard to make it seem like they...