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...links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some of his colleagues regard him as an untrustworthy opportunist because he has been known to switch allegiances within party factions. The third prospect, former Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 60, is respected as an intellectual but considered by some as too much of a gentleman to be able to control the factions...
...Islanders whisked past L.A. and are nearing their peak. Injuries to opportunist Mike Bossy (who will play) and the slick but little-noted Anders Kallur (who won't) cloud their prospects, but goalie Billy Smith has waxed brilliant--he did not permit a goal in the last 96 minutes against the prolific Kings. The cognoscent who haunt section 308 in the Nassau County Coliseum point to the simultaneous addition of Butch Goring and loss of Billy Harris as the key to the Isles' Big Mo. Islanders...
Right from the start, Dali was a glacial opportunist with weak powers of formal invention. He was also precocious and adroit, and so, as one might expect, his early work is an anthology of secondhand manners. He begins as a late-Picasso cubist, turning out bland art deco still lifes that contain a few premonitions of his later imagery; the lank, droopy fish in Moonlit Still Life, 1927, for example, predicts the flaccidity that was to appear in his soft watches and piano lids. But he did not find a style until he came to Paris and met the surrealists...
...while purists may condemn these less-than-earthshaking contests, the opportunist can find some damn good matchups in some of these so-called lesser bowls. And in the big ones...
...size of the field made it more an opportunist's game than a game of planned attack," he added...