Sentences with phrase «pilfer american»
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, and billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, launched a foundation that the FBI warned was a clandestine attempt to pilfer American technical secrets.
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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, left, and billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, launched a foundation that the FBI warned was a clandestine attempt to pilfer American technical secrets.
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Strained of much of its Englishness by the casting of American leads and a relocation from 1892 England to 1930 Italy, A Good Woman earns most of its good will from those Wildean epigrams, many pilfered from elsewhere in the writer's repertoire.
Apple, not console makers Microsoft and Sony, has become Nintendo's closest competitor in recent years, the American computer giant pilfering the latter's staff and carefully marketing the iPod Touch as a handheld game system to rival the Nintendo DS's turf.
Prince's technique involves appropriation, and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility, with images stemming from the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off - color jokes, gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels, among many other sources.