Word: one-upmanship
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Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...
...world's news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow...
...hectic, high-stakes atmosphere of what came to be called the lost weekend, the two leaders got into a bout of one-upmanship over who was willing to go further toward total nuclear disarmament. In the end, the meeting collapsed when Gorbachev tried to get Reagan to agree to confine SDI research, development and testing to the laboratory -- a restriction Reagan saw as aimed at "killing" his most cherished program...
...prevent the Treasury from raiding Social Security investments late Friday to keep the Government solvent. It is apparent that Congress can manage this self-imposed crisis no better than its annual battles to reduce spending. Lawmakers have turned the balanced-budget battle into a bizarre game of political one-upmanship...
...vehicle) that could dart and weave to avoid anti- missile missiles. The disclosure of the MARV research is awkward for the Reagan Administration because it undercuts the President's argument that it is possible to build an airtight defense system. Arms-race foes naturally fear another round of nuclear one-upmanship as MIRVing is made more lethal by MARVing...