The law permitting the cameras is due to expire next month, thanks to legislative flimflammery by State Senate Republicans.
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In the end, Bentley may have been undone less by his affair than by the financial flimflammery on the side.
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PRO It looks great, Mr. Donovan is just about ideally cast, and the anthropology of street-level flimflammery feels authentic.
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" Axelrod suggested that some degree of flimflammery was involved, tweeting, "To those who have asked, I have known Mark Halperin as a reporter for 25 years.
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The sunset provision is budget flimflammery that sets up a vertiginous fiscal cliff; the mandate repeal probably requires an unlikely bank-shot deal with Democrats on stabilizing the Obamacare exchanges to be nondisastrous.
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Playwright Ayad Akhtar's script keeps things moving, never getting too bogged down in the financial flimflammery to lose audiences — a neat trick given the occasionally soporific nature of high finance to anyone who's not an account.
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He has spoken of the border as being "under assault" and of the need for "New Testament" judges; and, in an echo of his new boss's flimflammery, he was recently involved in a questionable invention-marketing operation.
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Obviously, my job is pretty fake too—I type things on the internet for a living, sometimes in my pajamas—but there are thousands of people here who are really completely useless, paid three times the median household income to engage in pure flimflammery.
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What does occupy screen time, rather than the entertaining, street-level business of flimflammery, are duller subplots involving Linda's flirtation with a dodgy hypnotist (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Charlie's visits with an unorthodox neurologist (Susan Misner) and the romantic travails of Charlie and Linda's son (Dylan Schmid).
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Now let's get back to Martin Gardner and — My Favorite Funny Quickies In building up a file of puzzles over the decades, I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection or other kind of flimflammery.
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Clarke's first play that she sold was written for a church. Her best known book was Prince of Egypt, which won the Westminster prize for the best religious book the year it was published and was also one of the sources for the film The Ten Commandments (1956 film). Clarke was not a fan of the movie and used the term 'flimflammery' to describe the scene in which Moses parted the Red Sea. Wilson is also well known for her biographies about women such as Dorothea Dix and Elizabeth Blackwell as well as Dolley Madison and Martha Washington.
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