Word: bluffe
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...Inquisitor to say things like "wicked awesome" and of a lame reference to Oprah will indicate the level of wit the show aspires to. There a few redeeming moments: the entrance of the Plaza-Toros is well staged and choreographer Susanna Witt's staging of the blind man's bluff dance is clever. Overall, however, the actors succeed by overcoming the direction, not because...
...This is a big bluff, a primitive myth created by Yeltsin and his entourage. Ever since Gorbachev's reforms, despite all the suffering, Russians realize there is no way back. You should see this political struggle from a different angle. It is the executive branch that is seeking to use neo-Bolshevik methods. Entire sections of the former Communist Party Central Committee simply drifted into the President's administration, together with their archives, safes and even their telephones. Under the guise of working for a democratic President, they are simply restoring old party ways. They have no use for laws...
...item as a separate bill for the President to sign or veto. Senator Bill Bradley has suggested adopting this practice as a two-year experiment. The Democratic-controlled Congress should have tried this experiment back when Republicans controlled the White House. It would have been a sparkling exercise in bluff calling. Now they can grant the power to one of their own. Politically, it would be no special favor to Clinton. But if he is serious about leading us out of the deficit, it is a burden he should be willing to accept...
When the Khmer Rouge announced in June that they would not allow the U.N. into their areas, some U.N. officers wanted to call their bluff and dispatch forces into the territory. But force commander Lieut. General John Sanderson felt such pressure might destroy the peace process, and most of the countries that had contributed troops would not let them be sent into battle against the Khmer Rouge. The disagreement highlighted a U.N. dilemma: When should peacekeeping become peace enforcing -- perhaps with the loss of peacekeepers' lives...
...could try to use the the special powers that the parliament granted him after the abortive coup attempt in August 1991 to disband the legislature altogether and impose direct presidential rule. But many fear such a risky step, and parliamentarians were quick to call Yeltsin's bluff by summoning the People's Deputies into session -- over his heated opposition -- on Dec. 1, the very day his mandate to rule by decree expires...