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Behind someone's back.
If you do something behind someone's back, you do it without telling them.
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But the "someone" is always deemed to be the bad guys in power, isn't it?
Worse still, the stepping needs to be stealthy, because the someone is Uncle Phil.
In that scene the someone is Mr. Benton, or perhaps Dustin Hoffman.
On occasion the someone is Lotto himself: he has a huge capacity to act in his own interests.
In this case, the someone is a bunch of smart, savvy film people who are also genuine fans of the books.
The someone is Douglas Carter Beane, and what he has done is write a nutty staged soap opera that is unfolding on four successive Mondays at Comix.
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The someone was Sharpton.
Especially if that someone is the opposite gender.
Someone is on the run from the law; someone is the law.
Then, listen to the world around you, think about the people, and think or whisper: somewhere in the world, someone is being tortured; somewhere in the world, someone is getting married; somewhere in the world, someone is dying, someone will cross over, someone will stay, someone is dying.
If Bibi Netanyahu is the answer, someone is surely asking the wrong question.
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