Word: gamesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Honey (Nicole Jesson) arrive amidst a jeering exchange of expletives. At first bubbling with apologies and awkwardness, they soon fall immediately into their hosts' manipulative and destructive games. Surrounded by a well-stocked bar and worn volumes on the shelves (including such too-apt titles as "The Possessed," "Illusions," "Gamesman" and "Father's Day"), the elder couple nastily unloads their marital bloody laundry, referring periodically to their never-present, elusive son, all the while extracting damaging confessions from Nick and Honey. As the evening progresses, the two couples' elaborately deceptive language descends, drink by drink, into the monosyllabism of pain...
...mother's relaxed manner and something of the paradoxical shy self-confidence that so rivets her public. He may also be the most media-savvy person in his family. When Diana was offered the presidency of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the avid gamesman advised her, "You can't do that--every time I kill something, they'll blame you." It looks as if he may make it after...