Word: deviousness
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...understatement. The bomb, a very sophisticated one, is intended to persuade its recipient, Freelance Writer Robert Halliday, that the sender is a man to be taken seriously. Next, through devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur...
...deal turns out to be as fishy as the dealer. Instead of penciling a manuscript-there is no manuscript-Halliday finds himself enmeshed in devious negotiations initiated by a Persian Gulf emir identified only as the Ruler. The potentate is eager to lease territory he controls to NATO as a major allied military base. Zander-Luccio, the Pike, serves as middleman in the deal, hoping that a grateful U.S. Government will thereafter provide him with political asylum and a new identity. After a long career of nastiness in the Middle East, he has learned that he is the target...
People indulge in nonverbal communication not basically to be clever or devious but because these ways of communicating are deeply embedded in the habits of the species and automatically transmitted by all cultures. So says Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, a pioneer in the study of kinesics, as body language is called. Other experts point out that signaling by movement occurred among lizards and birds, as well as other creatures, even before mammals emerged...
...apocalyptic parade of images depicting a world in crisis. Ayatullah Khomeini, mobs and mullahs. Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Pillars of black smoke from the Iran-Iraq war. Scenes of terrorist violence in Italy and Spain. "There are wars you can see," a narrator intones. "And others that are devious." Japanese-built motorbikes in front of a Paris dealership make a point about trade war. A shot of Middle East oil wells suggests the energy crunch...
...worked with because of the wide authority granted to the President by French law. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was a woman of strong opinions, forceful and dependable. He did not talk about Germany's Helmut Schmidt, but aides have always said that the President considered Schmidt a devious man, effusive in person but duplicitous behind Carter's back. In Carter's view, Egypt's Anwar Sadat loomed above all the world leaders. "I trust him like my wife," he said looking at Rosalynn. It is no secret that Carter found Israel's Menachem Begin...