The story is filched, fluffed and twisted from the original "Lysistrata" (411 B.C ., in which one brave and ingenious soul coaxed her fellow female Athenians to withhold sex from their warrior husbands until an end was brought to the Peloponnesian War.
In July 1967, Coker devised "unusual and ingenious methods" to allow his fellow prisoners to communicate with each other within their camp, assisting their collective efforts to resist their captor's demands and improving the morale of American and Allied POWs.
"When my little fellow saw the design of M Vaucanson's ingenious duck," he says, "a great shout – huzza – went up from him.
They say they will call witnesses, including his fellow traffickers, to describe how he smuggled dope in ingenious ways — such as in cans of jalapeño chilies — bribed Mexican officials at every level and masterminded the brutal murder of his enemies.
Take Nicholas Owen, an unusually ingenious carpenter in 16th-century England, who saved the lives of dozens of fellow Roman Catholics by building cunningly disguised "Priest's Holes" inside the walls of houses where they could hide, safe from religious persecution.
According to one of the judges, the poet Owen Sheers, Stuart "absolutely lived with me and made me laugh", while fellow judge Michael Holroyd described the biography as "a most original and ingenious book".
And like that fellow British awards-magnet, its design and direction are far more ingenious than its script.
While there, he devised an ingenious method of extracting nutrients from agricultural wastes to prevent malnutrition among his fellow POWs.
Exarcheia has devised ingenious methods of funding its activities, including a local anarchist bar, whose proceeds go toward legal expenses for fellow activists, as well as language classes for refugees, food handouts and medical care.
When Pinkman has the wickedly ingenious idea of sending Skinny P and Badger to join a twelve-step program in order to sling their product to fellow addicts, they end up selling their meth to one another instead.
