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–noun
1. jinks, prankish or frolicsome activities.
2. British Dialect. chink.

v.   intr.
To make a quick, evasive turn: "He jinked every five seconds, and now brought his [tank] left again" (Tom Clancy).
v.   tr.
To cause (a vehicle or an aircraft, for example) to make a quick, evasive turn.
n. 
1. A quick, evasive turn.
2. jinks Rambunctious play; frolic.


　
With its lunatic genre freak-outs and intimidating quantity, Indian cinema is as difficult to nail down as a blob of [mercury], but you'd never know it from the rare imported samples. 

blob
–noun
1. a globule of liquid; bubble.

2. a small lump, drop, splotch, or daub: A blob of paint [marred] the surface.
3. an object, esp. a large one, having no distinct shape or definition: a blob on the horizon.
4. a dull, slow-witted, and uninteresting person.

–verb (used with object)
5. to mark or splotch with blobs.


What we see are Westernized half-breeds, divested of poverty and safety-padded for weekends at the middle-class art house. (The recent exception is Santosh Sivan's chilly indie The Terrorist, itself out of sync with India's uncorkable snap-crackle-pop.) 

Mira Nair's new Monsoon Wedding is the prototype: Delhi-set, yet sourced out of Hollywood chestnuts (Father of the Bride, for starters) and fastidiously divested of exotic Bollywood [high] jinks. 

The pervasive reach of American Everything is part of the fabric. Nair has, in fact, globalized her own movie, a loose and swoony wedding comedy that has less to say about its society than Nancy Savoca's True Love or even Robert Altman's A Wedding said about theirs. 


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abstain 
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shirk
However, McQueen doesn't [shirk] the political and moral complexities of Sands' stance
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