Word: cagey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience's preconceptions and snap opinions at every turn. The process begins with the opening scenes. When Joanna tells Ted she is walking out, the film is, for a while, completely on her side. Joanna is sensitive, beautiful and demonstrably deprived of her own identity. Ted is a cagey, unfeeling Madison Avenue adman who cares only about the big account he has just landed. Ted is so self-absorbed that he cannot believe that Joanna is really miserable enough to leave him. As she waits for the elevator in the hallway of the Kramers' East Side highrise...
Everything was the way it should have been as the battle dressed up for the national audience. Ron Guidry vs. Mike Torrez on the mound. Guidry, the cagey Cajun who had kept the Yankees in the race all year with his fastball and slider, was called upon again by the New Yorkers, this time on only three days' rest. With a record of 24-3 before the contest, his regular season job was strangely not yet over...
Freshman Bob Horne polished off Fred Siekert with a couple of 6-3 sets at number six, and cagey Scott Walker played one of his best matches to date when he destroyed Mark Schneider...
...guys were a bit overanxious and not at all relaxed," Cordeiro said. The cagey coxswain tried to instill new vigor in his charges as Rutgers opened up a length lead at the 1000-meter mark...
...Harvard decided to play it cagey. The front line of defense would be the government relations people in Washington trying to convince Congress to back off. The second line of defense, if lobbying efforts failed, would be some kind of court battle to declare the government's interference unconstitutional...