Word: gamesmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rally will have to grow substantially before the gamesmanship in Washington is over. Next month Congress is expected to consider the ultimate feel-good measure, a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, which lets lawmakers praise cutting without pointing the knife. Among the sponsors are 65 members of the House who voted in August against both Clinton's deficit- reduction package and the Republican alternative. But why should politicians stop playing deficit games before voters...
After the 1960 debates, Douglass Cater of the Reporter magazine -- one of the panelists -- noted how quickly Kennedy and Nixon "mastered its special form of gamesmanship" this new political medium required. "No matter how narrow or broad the question," Cater wrote, "each of them extracted his last second of allotted image projection in making his response." If anything, the candidates have grown more adroit over the years. That is why these political quiz shows have come to resemble that other icon of the TV age -- the Super Bowl: overhyped, overcoached and ultimately underwhelming...
...risk is a campaign that revolves around gamesmanship rather than substance. Right after Labor Day, Clinton stepped in to tone down the hyperactivity of the campaign's war room, with its zeal to respond instantly to every G.O.P. charge. The constant counterpunching, Clinton believed, was overshadowing his larger message. Within the campaign, the power of the war room and its generals -- communications director George Stephanopoulos and top strategist James Carville -- has been a source of envy. "It has taken George and Carville months to realize that they have to trust Bill Clinton's instincts," says a well-placed campaign official...
...increasingly crowded stand-up stage, Carlin remains in a spotlight by himself. Most current TV comics are interchangeable: dispensing predictable, painless gags about '90s values, sexual gamesmanship, TV sitcoms and Dan Quayle. After three decades in the business, Carlin, who turns 54 this week, is still testing the limits, challenging his audience, shouting from the depths of his social-activist soul...
...Such gamesmanship has made this budget summit a dismal failure. The two sides should have been discussing real cuts and constructive taxes, such as higher gasoline taxes or a broader levy on energy in all forms, or both. But though an energy tax would raise billions quickly, encourage conservation and decrease the nation's dependence on foreign oil, a huge -- perhaps insurmountable -- obstacle stands in its way: it would take guts to impose...