Word: gamesmanship
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DIED. JAMES RESTON, 86, journalist; in Washington. Originally a sports reporter, Reston's grasp of global gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV DIED IN 1977 to mixed reviews. Not everyone was captivated by his erudition, multilingual wordplay and narrative frolics. But those who tuned to his wavelength came to appreciate that the style and gamesmanship so intimidating to his competition disguised the author's larger task: to heighten the pleasures of the natural world and the gratifications of personal creativity...
...only a few hours after the verdict, Wu arrived in San Francisco about 8 p.m. Thursday and proceeded to his home in nearby Milpitas, California. There, looking frail, he spoke with a parade of reporters over the next few days. In an interview with TIME, he described the fierce gamesmanship between him and his captors. "I was in a small room, only 4 sq m [43 sq. ft.]. These young guards were with me all the time." To gain the tiniest measure of privacy, he shamed them into letting him close the door of the toilet (though they peered through...
...sorting out the dead ends and red herrings, when you are really being toyed with by an intelligence as devious as Soze's. For those who don't care whodunit, the film has superior skulking by some wonderfully actory actors and brings high-wire wit to its high-gloss gamesmanship...
...matter how vehemently he may deny it--and he does--the Cuban leader cannot escape the fact that after 36 years of wily international gamesmanship, he is stranded on the wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist bedrock upon which he built his edifice of power has proved itself bankrupt on virtually every continent of the globe. As his own people clamor for a better life, Cuba's socialist dream appears to be fading fast...