Word: duress
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...election has also been enriched by little ironies. Turner, having acquiesced under duress to confirm a flood tide of patronage appointments demanded by departing Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, has been handicapped since Day 1 of his campaign, with Mulroney jabbing away effectively on the issue. But speaking from the heart to his own potential constituents in Baie Comeau, Mulroney assured them that if he were elected, they would enjoy "priority treatment," which is to say wink, wink, they would be first into the trough...
...various arms-control fronts, is nothing. There would be no greater mistake than for the U.S. and the Europeans to say, "My God, we've done something wrong, and we have to make some concessions to get them back to the table." That would be negotiating under duress and would encourage walkouts in the future. In the longer term, I think they will come back because it is in their interest...
Ride has earned her colleagues' trust and high regard. Says Crippen, who as skipper had veto power over all the crew choices: "You like people who stay calm under duress. And Sally can do that. She hit all the squares." Her sister, who has become a Presbyterian minister, calls her a tough, no-nonsense competitor: "Sally will wipe you out every time." Adds Molly Tyson, an old Stanford roommate: "I've never seen Sally trip, on or off the court, physically or intellectually...
Sequestering incompatible people on islands, in hotels or at roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas...
...midweek, journalists in West Beirut were summoned to a press conference by a group called the High Security Committee. There they were introduced to three Lebanese Muslims who had confessed, under duress, to working for the Israelis in a series of car-bomb incidents that had killed 30 people and injured 100. One, an admitted addict, said he did it for drugs; the others claimed that an Israeli officer said their families in southern Lebanon would be imprisoned if they did not cooperate. A few hours later, the three men were executed at the sites of the explosions. The body...