Word: ployes
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Even though Twigs ends on a note of high comedy (for Furth has arranged his acts so that their verbal and visual humor overtakes their early bleakness, a ploy more justifiable dramatically than thematically), it leaves behind an echo of resignation that has just barely escaped despair. None of the daughters is quite the equal of the mother, although each is herself somehow tough enough to accept the increasingly limited possibilities life offers. But then, as Emily says. "If life were perfect, we wouldn't have to go through...
Regarding Nelson's possible libel suit Barnes said, "Either he (Nelson) is doing it for a joke or as a campaign ploy--he might be trying to get publicity...
...charge was just one in a number of attempts to undermine his growing influence with other cons. "This is all a well-thought out effort to frighten me...I guess they want to show me and those around me here how powerless I am in their hands." However, the ploy, Jackson asserts, is not going to work...
...182c, "Modern Vietnam," has plummeted from 195 last Spring to half that number this Fall. A dozen people showed up at the first meeting of Sam Popkin's graduate seminar on "Revolution and Politics in Vietnam." Four people are enrolled in "Elementary Vietnamese." China courses are packed. Nixon's ploy appears to be working...
...dramatizing the state's concern; he might even have given weight to Oswald's ultimatum. Theodore Kheel, New York's veteran labor negotiator, contends that the convicts found Oswald's quick acceptance of 28 prisoner demands "too good to be believed"; they feared that his promises were only a ploy to free the hostages and would not be kept. "It would have been a mistake for the Governor to negotiate with them face to face," said Kheel. "But if he had come, he would have given the concessions credibility...