The game pokes fun at role-playing games like Earthbound and Pokémon, but it also makes a point to portray politicians as liars, connivers, and schemers.
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The film is set in Rick's Café Américain, a swinging bar "through which swirls a backwash of connivers, crooks and fleeing European refugees," as the Nazis take over Europe.
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Tim Conway, whose gallery of innocent goofballs, stammering bystanders, transparent connivers, oblivious knuckleheads and hapless bumblers populated television comedy and variety shows for more than half a century, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
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Typical fabliaux contain a vast array of characters, including cuckolded husbands, rapacious clergy, and foolish peasants, as well as beggars, connivers, thieves, and whores. Two groups are often singled out for criticism: the clergySee in particular Burrows (2005). and women. The status of peasants appears to vary, based on the audience for which the fabliau was being written.
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Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times was unimpressed, writing "It is a wild and labored operation, and when it finally comes to an end, one wonders whether it has even been bona fide farce." He did, however, appreciate the efforts of the main cast: "It profits by pleasant performers. Jim Hutton, Jack Mullaney and Steve McQueen work hard as the three connivers." Steve McQueen walked out of the first public sneak preview and vowed never to work for MGM again despite being under contractual obligation for two more pictures.
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She considers herself the only reigning queen of Toad Hall. She, Marshall and Kathleen were always trying to get rid of the Westchesters as well as Mother B. and Stanley, so they would be the only ones who would get the vast fortune of Big Guy, and they would live it up on the money. Despite this, the three would often argue among one another as much as they fought the Westchesters. Their schemes were often thwarted by Stanley, who saw them for the connivers that they were, or by their own ineptitude.
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The June 1962 escape from Alcatraz led to acrimonious investigations. Combined with the major structural problems and expensive operation, this led to closure on 21 March 1963. The final Bureau of Prisons report said of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary: "The institution served an important purpose in taking the strain off the older and greatly overcrowded institutions in Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeil Island since it enabled us to move to the smaller, closely guarded institution for the escape artists, the big-time racketeers, the inveterate connivers and those who needed protection from other groups." Today a museum and one of San Francisco's major tourist attractions, Alcatraz drew some 1.5 million visitors annually (2010).
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" Dan Kois of The Washington Post praised Edgerton brother's and said that "the debut feature of Nash and Joel Edgerton, Australian actors-turned- filmmakers, calls to mind another great darkly comic debut, the Coen brothers' Blood Simple. Like that movie, The Square uses the trappings of film noir to explore a moral universe in which connivers and crooks are their own worst enemies. And like Blood Simple, The Square suggests an exciting future for a pair of brothers with a dark view of pitiless fate." Lou Lumenick of the New York Post in his review said that "A starless but highly effective Aussie noir that marks the auspicious feature debut of stuntman and music-video director Nash Edgerton.
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State of the Union is a 1948 drama film about a man’s desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. The New York Times described it as “a slick piece of screen satire...sharper in its knife-edged slicing at the hides of pachyderm schemers and connivers than was the original.” The film was written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller based on the 1945 Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Director Frank Capra and his screenwriters remained extremely faithful to the play, and, as the authors of the play had done during its two-year run, updated the script during filming to keep it timely.
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