Word: ployed
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...will criticize "Gladiator" on a film-appreciation level: The cinematography is childish. For example, after two KOd bodies are strewn across the ring, the camera, emulating tactics delineated in the World Wrestling Federation hand-book, pans down on them from above. Audience laughter undoubtedly follows this most unsubtle ploy...
...then, after only one night in jail, Arrington caved in, cutting short his protest by relinquishing his records. "It's not been great fun," he said. His abrupt abandonment of principle left some citizens shaking their heads and wondering whether the protest was orchestrated as a clever media ploy. Only the mayor can answer that question. What is certain is that the controversy exposed the city's raw nerves of race and that it will take a substantial effort to calm them...
...like the Billy Carter episode, the Rogers ploy backfired, dragging the White House into the controversy for the first time. It also raised fresh questions about the Justice Department's plodding investigation of B.C.C.I.'s U.S. affairs. Congressman Charles Schumer, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, promptly called for a formal probe of the Adham-Rogers connection. Both the White House and the Justice Department last week formally cleared Rogers of any ethics-law violations. Still, Schumer persisted in his calls for additional inquiries, in part because he says he believes that the White House...
According to gay activist and Lavender Alliance member Arthur S. Lipkin '68, "the Elaine Noble candidacy is a clever if somewhat cynical ploy on the part of the independents to whittle away at the progressive majority...
...about welfare, crime, drugs or affirmative action, he is talking about race. "I believe in equal rights for all, special privilege for none," says Duke. That seemingly laudable concept is a thinly veiled appeal to frustrated whites who feel they are victims of reverse discrimination. It is a clever ploy, and one whose attraction stretches far beyond the racist vote. A master at driving wedges through the electorate by exploiting race-linked issues, Duke is moving these once taboo topics from the back room to the public forum. As one wizened Cajun in Donaldsonville puts it, "He tell it like...