Word: feint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Administration officials described the President's role as merely "facilitating," AA's chairman Robert Crandall grumbled that he acquiesced because he was leaned on. If that sounded insincere, the feint let Crandall, whose company hemorrhaged more than $10 million for each day of the strike, set a hardball tone for the upcoming arbitration, where both sides will put their cases before a third party...
...Nightingale Hospital -- Britain's version of the Betty Ford Center -- has intimated that Jackson may be undergoing psychodrama therapy for drug use. No officials of the clinic, however, will say whether the star is actually there. Some Jackson watchers have downplayed the drug angle, speculating that it is a feint to draw attention away from the child-molestation charges...
American movies are all talk, no listen. Jabber jabber, feint feint -- conversation is combat, a schoolyard dissing contest, a slightly more sophisticated version of "Your mother!" "No, yours!" In real life, and in French movies, people pretend to get along when they talk. They keep things light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...
...EDUCATION, we see the same sort of feint. Again, we have volunteerism: Teach for America is the new darling of the corporate sector. The plan is simple: Send active college students into public schools (preferably bad public schools), where they get paid shit. As the Ad Council says, "Reach for the Power: Teach...
...conspicuously as possible, and as zero hour approached, an armada of 31 ships swung into position to put them ashore near Kuwait City. The battleships Missouri and Wisconsin took turns, an hour at a time, firing their 16-in. guns at Iraqi shore defenses. It was all a feint; * the war ended with 17,000 Marines still aboard their ships...