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One day, Oh Dae-su is released back into the world where he is faced with an even bigger mind-game: does he try to unravel the mystery of his imprisonment, or quench his thirst for revenge?
From The Vault – The Week of April 6th « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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Sure it has Heinlein's fun use of language, a tough-but-not-robotic hero, a flamboyant female character, and his always-interesting social commentary (some so subtle as to escape everyone but a very determined reader); absolutely it works as a Cold War analogy with its war between unique identity and faceless uniformity; and, certainly, it works as a paranoiac mind-game where you literally cannot trust anyone; but then there is the dragon.
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It just sends flashbacks to high school and dating and all the crazy mind-game "I'll call yous", which means "You'll never hear from me agains."
Welcome to Friday -- and Professional Courtesy reudaly 2009
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To its credit, "Inception" plays equally well on an entirely different plane, namely the kind of twisty mind-game that suggests the work of Charlie Kaufman ( "Adaptation") and the "Matrix" movies.
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I'd like to think it was an elaborate prank, just to see how many gullible people he could suck in to his little mind-game.
Marshall Fine: Chaplin's time traveler and the Tea Party Marshall Fine 2010
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I have watched with dismay this past three weeks as vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama.
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They are the ones being duped by this walking psychological mind-game playing senator with corruption and phoniness oozing out of her at all times.
Hillary Airs New Ad In Pennsylvania Hitting Obama's "Small-Town" Comments 2009
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This administration has been and is waging a psychological mind-game (for lack of a better word) "war" per se against the public.
Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009
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This administration has been and is waging a psychological mind-game (for lack of a better word) "war" per se against the public.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009
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And the strategic advantage he was gaining by playing this mind-game was non-existent.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa Finale: A Confederacy of Douches. 2009
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