Sometimes I marvel at the speed at which a word can become ubiquitous. Marvel and despair.
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DEEP STATE GRIFTER is my favorite Clint Eastwood movie.
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Isn't grifter a noir term from the 30s? Certainly it was being used (by me) in the 1990s to describe, well, a grifter.
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Yeah—it was a great Jim Thompson sort of word with a seedy, old-timey flavor to it. Used sparingly, it was really effective. Used all over the place, it just loses its tang.
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