Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 110 demonstrators who shouted. "We're not fooled by Harvard's bluff. The Strauch report is not enough," in front of University Hall last week, the final word that came out of the Faculty meeting inside was a bit of a letdown...
WOLFE IS READY to call the bluff. He moved into the art criticism field this month with a long piece in Harper's, called "The Painted Word" and apparently intended to blow the whistle on post 1945 art and its accoutrements. His general thesis is simple the reason modern art is so in comprehensible, the reason it's so hard to imagine why anybody would like it, understand it, or want to buy it, is that the whole show is run by critics who have turned art into an extension of their theories...
...Bluff Caller. Evans, 46, rose through provincial papers to become editor of the Northern Echo in 1961, was named managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1966 and editor in 1967. Short and slight, he still speaks with flat Yorkshire vowels and spends his few hours out of the Sunday Times office toiling almost obsessively at squash, skiing, Ping Pong and a book on photojournalism. He also serves as an occasional panelist on a television quiz show titled, aptly enough, Call My Bluff. Evans has long argued that British journalism should end its preoccupation with the elegant expression of opinion...
...while," he explains, "people began to hate The Blue Danube and switch over to the other station. But when they did, all they heard was news. At the end of 30 days, most of the kids in town thought our competition was an all-news station." In Pine Bluff, Ark., figuring he could do just as Welles, he simulated a ten-man news team reporting a fictitious attack on the city by a giant amoeba...
...Attack (choose a property that pays off well with a minimum of investment and build early) to the Prince's Restraint (put everything into an expensive color group, preferably green). Sounding like Monopoly's J.P. Morgan, Brady suggests ways of driving competitors out of business by bluff, capital acquisition or snapping up cheap properties that will appreciate in value. Whether as paper realtors or real-life investors, players will profit from hardheaded sections on avoiding the mortgage morass, deferring bankruptcy and beating the cheat...