Word: bluffe
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...kind of annihilation with that of another and died as he had lived, alone, troubled, but strangely sympathetic. What began as a righteous cause for this polite and abstemious antinuclear advocate became an obsession and ultimately ended in a hollow if not insane act of protest. Yet before his bluff was called, Mayer, 66, a balding drifter, managed to frighten the city of Washington and stage a blatant and bizarre act of terrorism at the Washington Monument, less than a mile from the White House...
Police opened fire at 7:35 p.m. but could not remove the body from the scene until 9 p.m. Although he had claimed to have 1000 pounds of dynamite and automatic detonating devices in his van, police reported that his day-long threat had been a bluff...
Anthony Caracciolo, who works the 3-to-7 shift on Jordan Marsh's fifth floor, says he tried to bluff the first time he heard that question. "Now it's easier just to say you and the other Santas are Santa's helpers," he explains. A 63-year-old retired civil servant in his rookie season in the red uniform. Caracciolo says, "Being a Santa is one of the things I have always wanted to do in my life. I'm getting paid $4.50 an hour, but I'd gladly...
When Big Jim Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson...
...other players do well in their roles, although only Lewis Goldman as the vulgar Birdboot and Fatima Mahdi as the terrifically sinister Mrs. Drudge ("The fog is very treacherous around here--it rolls off the sea without warning, shrouding the cliffs in a deadly mantle of blind man's bluff...") manage to match Edelstein's spirit...