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- r in an artful manner
- Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised .
- Indeed, one of the real pleasures of this movie is derived from the fact that Apatow writes his minor characters a TV host, a wardrobe mistress, a slyly envious production .
- But he's also a funny brute, slyly, sexily testing the gentility and hypocrisies by which his sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois, lives as they contend for the soul of Stella, his wife .