Two teenage boys amuse themselves with an unusual after-hours game of catch.

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It may be that Britain's wise politicians have solved all the big political and economic questions, leaving a largely contented population to amuse themselves with trifles.

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"In many ways I wrote these plays to amuse this woman that I was in love with, " he says.

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While that developer used this power to amuse, a more disgruntled person could probably come up with pictures, or execute code, that might not be so funny.

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The best thing in the film is the cannily crafted soundtrack, which is filled with audio clips from television, suggesting pop-culture circuses that not only amuse and distract the people but also corrupt them.

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With top notes of mandarin, grapefruit and neroli, it awakens the senses like an amuse-bouche, before revealing lingering notes of Iris pallida (a sweetly scented variety native to Italy).

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This comic novel will amuse and sell well, for the better elements of our culture and our youth have grown impatient with the travails and aggrandizing of Twixter books, movies, music and TV.

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