Word: tricked
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...plots, but he’s unable to employ them creatively. For example, the heroine of “The Proud Young Woman” rejects all her suitors—like the Princess and the Pea—but unlike the Princess who is wonderfully reformed by the trick her suitor plays on her, the proud young woman gradually grows old and ugly and dies. No fairy tale fan wants to read a story like that.Schwitters’ collection is at greatest fault, not in its mislabeling, but in its lack of imagination. The intelligence at work behind...
...recession and cynicism, for a form of humor that doesn't assuage but assaults. If we can get it on The Daily Show, which truly does observe and report, we ought to see it once in a while on the big screen. Comedies of the '70s turned the trick, but the people running the Hollywood laugh factory don't even try. Why'd you stop, malefactors...
...fluky her life was. Perhaps, after all, outsize fame is more suited to young teens. They don't overthink it. The Book of Job is 41½ chapters about misery and 10 verses about restoration, yet Cyrus read it as being about her. That's a mind trick only a teenager - or a star - can pull...
...Sunday-morning quarterbacks in the Hollywood press attributed F&F's gigantic gross to the producers' simple trick of reuniting the quartet of leading actors from the 2001 original: Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez. Well, O.K., but what individual star power do these folks have? What hits have they headlined? Anyone who can spontaneously name the last film that each of these four starred in deserves a share of F&F's profits. (Or spends too much time fishing through the video-store discount bin. The answers, in case you were wondering, are Babylon A.D., The Lazarus...
...attacker Dean Gibbons said. Cohen, White, and Duboe helped Harvard build a 6-2 lead in the first period. The Big Red got back into the game thanks to its own triumvirate of scorers—Max Seibald and Finn registered four goals apiece and Hurley notched a hat trick as well. “They have a really high-powered offense,” Smith said, “Especially Max Seibald. He’s big and strong and can shoot on the run with both hands.” Cornell cut the margin to one by halftime...