Word: ployes
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...make them any more believable down deep. The use of popular music at climactic scenes is likewise questionable: in the final scene, when vengeance is pounding recklessly towards fulfillment, the Talking Heads' "Psycho-Killer" erupts out of nowhere as servants sprinkle the grappling bodies with red glitter. The ploy only adds a dash of Saturday Night Fever to an already macabre event. And the updating is not uniform throughout. Sudden bursts of gunshots in the final scenes startle an audience grown used to the clash of swords. In duelling scenes, digital watches glint on the wrists of saber-holding swashbucklers...
...Washington's latest diplomatic ploy go precisely as planned. A few weeks ago, State Department officials decided to try to persuade the government of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña to advance the elections scheduled for March 1984. They hoped that the announcement would enhance their case for continued military aid, while blunting any call by the Pope for a negotiated settlement. Richard Stone, a former Democratic Senator from Florida who was appointed special ambassador for "public diplomacy" earlier this year, handled the task. Accompanied by two National Security Council staffers, Stone flew to San Salvador two weeks...
...Lombino. A panicky Campione called Sportelli in Rome to find out if he should tell the FBI the truth. The SISMI foreign-intelligence boss immediately called "M," the CIA agent in Rome who was serving as the agency's liaison in the Dozier case and explained the entire ploy...
...have brought a series of minor brushes as Israeli units tried to pass U.S. Marine checkpoints outside Beirut and were turned back; in the ugliest incident so far, a Marine captain brandished a pistol and turned away a trio of Israeli tanks. U.S. officials are convinced that the tank ploy was a deliberate act of provocation and that Sharon was behind it. Said a U.S. official: "Someone was trying to make some points...
Earlier this month, Hyster announced that the game was over, and Oregon had lost. "With great reluctance," said Kilkenny, Hyster would phase out a 53-year-old Portland plant, furloughing about 300 workers. In response to Hyster's ploy, the other states kept their plants when the music stopped but it cost them a cool $24.1 million...