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Canizaro's first market plunge was a bluff, ''I had been studying the market reading everything I could get my hands on. I saw that there were a lot of short sellers in Lukens Steel. I was sure that the stock would rise, but I didn't have the money to pay for it. I bluffed my broker into buying 1,500 shares. Three days later I sold it for a profit of $10,210.'' Canizaro...
Even then it was hard to find an authentic New Hampshire accent, because the state was populated almost exclusively by sturdy real estate salesmen and bluff, honest motel owners, most of whom had emigrated recently from New Jersey. I suggested that the advanceman look up my friend the town clerk, who pumped gas and sold dog licenses and could, in theory, write out a permit that would allow you to bury a body on your land. The town clerk was a good, brisk talker, and although no gossip, he was the preferred source of reliable information on town affairs...
Hard-pressed music administrators, already adept at the Trustee Talk, the Backstage Rallying Cry and the Bargaining-Table Bluff, now have to add another number to their repertories: the Intermission Chat. It gets results. The San Francisco Opera has received 35,000 requests for the souvenir program it offered on a telecast of La Gioconda two weeks ago-some containing unsolicited contributions. To be sure, an episode of Mork & Mindy is seen by 44 million viewers, whereas a top-rated ballet or opera reaches only 8 million or 9 million. But this is easily twice the usual audience...
...your phonetic rendering of woof ticket, the pronunciation is correct, but rather than being a "wolf ticket (meaning a challenge to fight), it is a "woof ticket (meaning a bluff). One often hears the term woofin' to mean that someone is in a sense barking, not yet committed to bite. Thus an inferior athletic team "sells woof tickets," trying to psych out its opponents. The superior team, confident of its ability, "buys all woof tickets...
...Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote the story, spent several days in Carmel talking with Adams and examining his archives. "The people who think of Adams as a monument of the Old West are largely right," he concludes. "He is a bluff, sweet man with pronounced opinions that he doesn't hesitate to utter." Unfortunately for the house guest, one of Adams' strongest views concerns tobacco, and his home is papered with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden...