Word: coye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roeg's elaborate practical joke lies in the fact that Insignificance backfires at precisely its most seductive point: it makes us feel guilty for our curiosity. First we are encouraged in a galloping case of Peeping Tomism, then we are slapped on the wrists for expecting anything but coy, hyperventilated fluff...
Asked if his Iowa sojourn had anything to do with 1988, Kemp replied, "Absolutely." Bush is more coy. "I don't seriously have to address that problem until after the 1986 elections," he said last week. Yet the nomination clock is ticking earlier than ever. Michigan, for example, may begin the arduous process of choosing the people who will select its delegates to the 1988 Republican Convention as soon as August...
...given artwork from the swarm of others and confirm the precision of a collector's taste. Interesting has the opposite effect. It suspends judgment, covers the rear, and defends the vacuum-cleaner habits of a cultural mass market without precedent in art history. It states, with a sort of coy defiance, that buying this, uh, thang may not be a mistake, even though its owner does not know what to say about it. It acknowledges that by the time thoughtful aesthetic judgment is passed -- a distant prospect, given the promotional state of too much American art criticism -- the price...
Soviet officials have indicated that they might accept numerical reductions in existing offensive forces on their side for constraints on the "modernization" of American forces. So far, the U.S. is playing very coy about what, if any, new offensive weapons it might be willing to discard in exchange for the right Soviet concessions. That coyness is understandable since the players are just returning to the table...
Without notifying the President in advance, Kirkpatrick announced her plans last week to step out of public life. "I am absolutely not being coy about it," she said. "I have an intention and that is my intention." Well, perhaps. But only a couple of hours later the U.N. Ambassador ordered a wire-service reporter dressed down for making her decision sound irrevocable in his story, and indeed she did not specifically rule out taking another post in the Reagan Administration. Many Washington insiders concluded that Kirkpatrick was engaged in calculated job jockeying. Said an Administration official...