Word: gamesmanship
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...forget, during the same period he lost his mother; he lost a friend like Vince Foster to suicide, a searing, personal moment. It took things from the realm of the gamesmanship of politics to a very profound sense of how important this business is to the people and to the country. The combination of these things made him President in the larger sense, as opposed to someone skilled at politics who had made it to the top level...
...lawyers, a traditionally liberal sector of the bar. Recently, the Justices have had tense relations with Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Republicans. In April the court rejected rules he backed to speed up death-penalty appeals. Bush responded by charging the court with engaging in "unnecessary delay and legal gamesmanship" in capital cases...
...Norman Mailer--and contested in court by O.J., who tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie Cochran (Ving Rhames), canny, blustery and beset by late doubts about the client; Robert Shapiro (Ron Silver), shrewd and preening; and F. Lee Bailey (Christopher Plummer), bloviating but deeply loyal to the Juice...
...advantage with new voters." In the end, Congress will probably approve more visas. But it won't be pretty. Says a frustrated G.O.P. aide: "This is no longer about a narrow economic issue that the high-tech guys think is important, but a political football. It reeks of partisan gamesmanship...
Another young author, Jedediah Purdy, last year published For Common Things, about the threat of the "ironic individual," possessed of acute self-awareness and mistrust, which, Purdy argued, led to cynicism. Heartbreaking Work is a resounding rebuttal. In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole. This is not irony obscuring sincerity. It is, finally, irony in the service of sincerity...