Word: byplaying
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...least, scotched the junta's plans for taking over the mines. The face-saving decision was made to move him up to "co-President," where he will no longer have independent authority as army commander in chief. "Don't kid yourself," said one observer, "the current byplay was written, staged, choreographed and directed by Barrientos...
...Times even went so far as to declare that his first one-man show had put "the whole new wave of figurative painting in this country in perspective." This left up in the air the question of how much of Kitaj's charm lies in his witty verbal byplay, how much in his agile draftsmanship and startling colorism. Last week Kitaj was back in the U.S. for the first time in nine years, presiding over his first New York show, 72 works covering eight years, at Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. If buyers did not understand all his allusions, they...
...Martian Byplay. Actually, the sidelights occasionally proved more memorable than the speeches or the commentary from the pundits: the Iowa delegation, for example, proudly waving stalks of New Jersey corn; Mahalia Jackson's off-Key version of The Star-Spangled Banner; Pennsylvania Nonagenarian Emma Guffey Miller and her peppery complaints about the hall's crowded aisles. And then there was ABC's great moment, after ABC Commentator Hubert H. Humphrey had. been nominated for Vice President, when Ed Morgan turned to Howard K. Smith to say, "Well, Howard, we may not be the top network...
...Mars," as Cronkite calls the antennaed Rover Boys who puffed from delegate to delegate accompanied by cameramen carrying 25-to-54-lb. packs of electronic gear. The floor reporters actually prolonged and inflated the squabbles over seating the Southern delegations. NBC and ABC got caught focusing only on Martian byplay at the moment of Lyndon Johnson's nomination by acclamation...
Then a prison fiat says: no more pets. The resourceful Stroud discovers a legal loophole that permits him to marry the widow while still in prison. This touches off a byplay with public opinion to enable him to keep his birds. But not for long. With no explanation whatsoever, Stroud is abruptly transferred by prison authorities to Alcatraz...