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Apparently, not even the sure-fire plot machinations of Lillian Hellman and beguiling wiles of actress Stockard Channing can rescue this Lincoln Center production from its pretensions.
They couldn't be less interested in Capitol Hill's machinations.
The Washington Post has an investigation into the latest financial machinations of the Democratic National Committee.
(The last film for which I have unqualified admiration is Robert Duvall's The Apostle .) I was enraged by the killing of the Iraqi mother in Three Kings and resented some of the jokiness and formula machinations that followed in its wake.
Some will complain that McAllister's slapstick-tragic lust for Linda shifts the focus too much from the campaign to the bedroom, but the movie means to be more than a study of electoral machinations.