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(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.
(Grabbe's conspiracy-theory net is so wide that it encompasses Clinton's alleged cocaine habit, the "bombing" of Ron Brown's plane, Foster's espionage history, the machinations of Bert Lance, and the bribery of Mike Wallace.)
Paxon's hasty departure and whatever invisible machinations lie behind it show that the devil makes work for idle hands.
The Italian press was more interested in the political machinations that led to the cancellation of a planned referendum on electoral reform.
One Congress member is quoted as seeing in the Fed's Long-Term machinations an example of one set of rules for welfare mothers, another for rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.