Word: ploy
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...this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled A Savage Journey...
Appreciation At this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled...
There has been substantial campus-wide outrage at Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s recent proposal to limit certain kinds of embryonic stem cell research. The governor’s proposal has alternately been derided as short-sighted, idiotic, or merely part of a cynical ploy to gain conservative credentials for a presidential...
Given his history, one can't help wondering whether Minkow's reincarnation is a story of redemption or just another clever ploy. (Of course, there's not a lot of money in teaching FBI recruits.) A nerdy kid, the son of lower-middle-class parents in California's San Fernando Valley, Minkow says he got into scamming at the age of 16 and set up ZZZZ Best in his parents' garage so he could impress girls. "I learned that money brought respect, and it was like a narcotic," he says. "I couldn't live without it." At its peak, ZZZZ...
...ended the region's traditional separatism. For the first time in the history of Ukraine, says Ihor Derzhko, deputy chair of the regional legislature in Lviv, "the orange revolution has fused us with the rest of the country." Derzhko believes the east's succession threats are a political ploy to wrench concessions from the new government. Those threats are a powerful weapon for the Kremlin, though for now Russian President Vladimir Putin is talking sweet. On Friday, he told visiting Spanish PM Jos? Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero that he "could only be pleased" if Ukraine were to be welcomed into...