But I have made a corollary discovery: The gardener, too, knows that nature conspires against him.

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Herrmann's music conspires with Robert Burks's dreamy colors to invoke Madeline in a green halo, a uniquely carnal ghost.

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The edges of the phone are ringed with metal, adding a subtle accent that conspires to make this LTE handset appear quite premium.

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And the world around us conspires to lure us off task.

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So on Black Light she conspires with hip-hop and pop producer-arranger Mike Elizondo on an album that seems designed to pay its respects to pop radio.

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Much of the problem is Spacey himself, as Francis (Frank) Underwood, a wheeler-dealer who is denied the job of Secretary of State, and then conspires, with his steely wife, to go even higher.

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