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finagle

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–verb (used with object) 
1. to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often fol. by out of): 

He finagled the backers [out of] a fortune.  

2. to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.  

–verb (used without object) 
3. to practice deception or fraud; scheme.  

Also, fenagle.


　
Last evening, I filled in one more gap in Roman Polanski's oeuvre that I've been trying to fill in: his 1966 flick Cul-de-sac. 

It's not readily available on DVD so it took some finagling. 

Anyway, Cul-de-sac sits in between Repulsion and The Fearless Vampire Killers in his out-put, and I have to say it's a stellar little seemingly-forgotten flick. Polanski's eye is per usual top notch, and there's just enough off-kilter weirdness to keep the proceedings, while superficially grim, really very funny.


see beguile 

oeuvre 
kilter

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cajole abscond
finagle
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