Word: gamesmanship
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They were checking, the Australians said darkly, to make sure that the installation of Courageous' big sheet winches did not violate America's Cup rules. Newport salts particularly enjoyed this gamesmanship ploy on the challenger's part because this year for the first time a delegation from the International Yacht Racing Union was checking to see that the complex 12-meter yachting rules were upheld. On the eve of the first race, Courageous was declared legal, and Brian Leary, Southern Cross syndicate manager, put the squall behind him. "Listen," he said, "the Americans have pasted Courageous stickers...
...committee's final public deliberation sometimes drifted into partisan bickering and time-consuming parliamentary gamesmanship, the result vindicated the patience and pace of the committee's determined chairman Peter Rodino. Through some seven months of laborious study, he kept the committee's overworked staff and its philosophically and temperamentally diverse members driving toward a resolution of its agonizing dilemma. When his committee faced its final act of judgment, the country was treated to a surprise: a group of nationally obscure and generally underrated Congressmen and Congresswomen rose to the occasion. Often with eloquence and poise, they faced the television cameras...
Sleuth. The most overrated film thus far this year. Joseph L. Manckiewicz directs with the tired hands of an old whore, and the screenplay itself is not really that clever-an indictment of upper-class gamesmanship which considers itself righteous by having hairdresser Michael Caine expose detective story writer Laurence Olivier as a fake Labored...
...decision-making strategy is augmented by gamesmanship round the table. "Occasionally," says one member, "a Justice will just say 'I pass' and not express an opinion until everyone else has indicated a preference." A Justice will often say he's "inclined" to grant or deny, thus keeping his options open until the final tally. And if three Justices feel strongly about a case, "it's not unusual for another Justice to add a fourth vote as a courtesy." Since 1925, the informal but almost invariably followed "rule of four" has meant that a case...
...difference between the plays is that Osborne is the master of long, eloquent, spellbinding monologues, while Britain's Simon Gray, author of last season's transvestite farce, Wise Child, is more the fencing master of brief, bitchy repartee. All of the fun is put-down humor, incessant gamesmanship, at which the British are virtually unbeatable. Butley's eviscerating wit is cool, cruel and precise, which does not prevent it from being unutterably funny...