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Republican machinations against the IMF leadership and the Democratic Party.
(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.
I'm tempted to give Murakami the benefit of the doubt--to say, even, that his pat machinations force his readers into his crowd of wound-up dolls (of whom most died, remember, "plunging over the edge of the table").
The problem was that in the midst of pre-indictment machinations in the Rostenkowski case, a bigger client came along in the shape of the president, who hired the much-touted Bennett when his reputation for genius was at its highest.
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.