The September 11 attacks themselves came under the spotlight in Stephen Daldry's overly manipulative Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, while Argo, directed by its lead actor, Ben Affleck, tensely dramatized an ingenious operation in 1980 to rescue American hostages from Iran.
Stahl's experimental expertise is shown in the richness of his ingenious chemical operations on oils, salts, acids, and metals.
Quite apart from infusions of capital into specific institutions, the whole market has been buoyed by enormous injections of low-cost central banking money across the world — whether it is round after round of asset-buying by central banks in Britain, Japan and the United States or the European Central Bank's ingenious support operations.
In 2003, when Michael Lewis published "Moneyball," his book about the ingenious, shoestring operations of the Oakland Athletics and their supremo Billy Beane, he gave the culture a way of describing a certain kind of insurrection, in which outsiders deploy the clean weapons of data and analysis to expose the biases of insiders, and improve upon the bad decisions that the insiders have made.
As part of a 2004 plea agreement, for example, Ely Sakhai, who orchestrated an ingenious forgery operation, put up $12.5 million to reimburse his victims.
A founder and head of investigations at the groundbreaking Indian Web site Tehelka.com -- tehelka means "sensation" in Hindi -- Bahal devised an ingenious sting operation to publicize what he said was endemic corruption in Indian defense procurement.
Six days later, a team of Israeli Special Forces personnel attacked the airport in a daring and ingenious raid, named Operation Thunderbolt, and freed the hostages.
The most ingenious and resourceful operation that has spilled into the public domain is code-named Olympic Games, a joint initiative by the NSA, the CIA and Israel's cyberwar bureau, Unit 8200, to inject the now-famous "Stuxnet" malware program into the industrial computer systems at Iran's nuclear facility in Natanz, disabling thousands of uranium centrifuges.
Or is the entire operation an ingenious illusion meant to sow confusion and fear among the Tourists and their deskbound analyst colleagues called Travel Agents?
To mislead the Germans, the British devised ingenious deception plans, notably Operation Fortitude.
The chief of Nice's judicial police who led the sting operation described the ingenious technique - never seen before in Europe - as "worthy of James Bond" and warned that it could been in use in British ports.
