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This particular actor-saving ploy on Sellars' part costs him an entire half of the play's plot. No one in the audience who has not read Much Ado About Nothing beforehand can make sense of the main romantic plot of Claudio (Paul Redford) and Hero (Grace Shohet) without the separate Dons...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Dons, Dummies and Directors | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

Ironically, Bonanno used a legalistic ploy. He writes: "They [the commissioners] didn't have any official authorization because J.B. was official member of commission. J.B. was head of the committee who elected the commission every five years. The five years was already passed and they were all out as J.B. was the only official to call [for a new election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not So Quietly Flows the Don | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...doughty dozen were all state senators who had taken off in an elaborate ploy to block a controversial bill about a state presidential primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...social concern originated. I am ashamed to think that my own class is producing people who think nothing of employing deceit and insincerity in the name of sound, responsible business practice. I am more encouraged, however, by the incompetence of their efforts. Such is the transparency of this grotesque ploy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biko Fund | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...guerrillas boycotted the vote: Smith's invitation to take part was, of course, a propaganda ploy. To participate would be to accept the internal settlement. This is an enemy regime we are determined to overthrow. We cannot achieve that by working within schemes contrived by the regime. We can only accept from it surrender terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Foes in a Black vs. Black Struggle | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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