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Due to the wily schemes of the witch-like housekeeper Milly (a shockingly brilliant performance by Margaret Leighton, Fluskyy becomes jealous of Adare's affections for his wife.

Irons showed a more persuasive range of moods, one minute the wily schemer, the next, sprawled in papal drag like a diva with a headache coming on.

And yet, Blackadder's first season is a bit of an oddity: Rowan Atkinson's titular Duke is the simpering, gormless buffoon, while it's Tony Robinson's Baldrick who is the wily schemer.

In this hefty, 2,000-page 2,000-pagee play sits alongside the author's works in all the dramatic genres, including the racy London city comedies whose wily scheming protagonists bear more than a distant family resemblance to volumee, the hero of the The Revenger's Tragedy.

It hurts to lose a few hundred dollars, or even a thousand, but the wilier schemes involve surrendering the title.

The order suggests that the fragmented markets for electricity are vulnerable to wily trading schemes.

Esther Muir is slinkily effective as a wily blond schemer -- Saturday at 5 P.M. on TCM.

The order filed against Barclays, for instance, "suggests that the fragmented markets for electricity are vulnerable to wily trading schemes," DealBook's Peter Eavis writes.

But things are not what they seem, and Mamo realises he must foil the wily waziri's schemes.

In between Holly falls for a wily get-rich schemer and heartbreaker, has a daughter with a war-junkie foreign correspondent and befriends a novelist whose artistic powers are on the wane.So far so semi-conventional.

Barnum, the son of a poor tailor, grows up to become a wily dreamer and schemer played with full-throated energy by Jackman, who attacks his upper vocal register with the freedom of someone who has no immediate plans to play Wolverine again.

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