(Jason Zinoman) 'SCREWMACHINE/EYECANDY OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE BIG BOB' David Calvitto is fun and scary as a television game-show host who turns sadistic, and Nancy Walsh and Bill Coelius are suitably airheaded as his contestants, but the play, by C. J. Hopkins, feels like a familiar comic skit that takes aim at an easy target (1 15).
But Vidic refused to take aim at an easy target.
It is tempting to see it as a populist measure aimed at an easy target.
Believing Bruni-Sarkozy to be the president's "weak link" and an easy target, the plotters allegedly aimed to persuade Sarkozy's former wife, Cécilia Attias, from whom he had split a few months after he was elected in 2007, to return to his side.
It was not "fascism" that Camus was aiming at - an easy target, after all, especially in 1947 - but dogma, conformity, compliance and cowardice in all their intersecting public forms.
SCORECARD -- Mr. Franks aims here at an easy target and hits his mark, but at some risk of reprisal.
Don't just aim to pass the test (if passing the test is quite easy), aim to get an A+.
Replete with eye-roll-inducing contrivances and heavy-handed symbolism — both lovers share dreams of their teeth falling out — this arrested-development comedy panders to the work-averse by taking easy aim at ambitious careerists.
It wasn't easy aiming to satisfy The Economist's traditional demands of accuracy and analytic insight without alienating those of our readers (the vast majority, I would wager) for whom "jungle music" suggests a pounding of drums among dense vegetation rather than a groundbreaking London-based youth movement of the mid-1990s.
He pledged he would take it easy, aiming for third place rather than fighting it out for first.
