Word: pretexting
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...forms a league between all Greek women to force their husbands--by withholding sex from them--to end the Peloponnesian war. The Dunster production takes Lysistrata a little more lightly than it was intended (Aristophanes wrote it during the Peloponnesian war) but so long as you expect only a pretext for laughs, you won't be gravely disappointed...
...ridiculing social follies. And in an artistic sense, The Mikado is among the most selfaware and sophisticated of Gilbert and Sullivan's works. "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring," for example, parodies the basic technique of opera and musical comedy--the action is ludicrously interrupted on very little pretext in order to make way for a song and dance number. One character lightly ends a sentence with the near-cliche: "It'll be as welcome as the flowers that bloom in the spring" and the company sets off into one of Sullivan's most ebullient melodies...
...first to understand that her crime is motivated by nothing less than an overwhelming desire to die. Only after his duty as king has forced him to have her killed does he recognize that the absurdity of Antigone's reasoning was irrelevant. Even the crime was only a pretext, simply a means towards her final goal. Her role...
This was just a pretext of [British Foreign Secretary James] Callaghan's to gain time. On the surface the argument that [Greek Foreign Minister George] Mavros and [Greek Cypriot Acting President Glafcos] Clerides had to consult their governments looked valid. But they had direct telephone lines with their capitals, just like the Turks, and they could have consulted their people by phone. All we wanted was separate geographical zones for the two Cypriot communities. Mavros and Clerides wanted to maintain the status quo. If we had accepted the delay they would have come back with negative replies anyway...
...have improved much sooner were it not for Schwimmer's predilection for secrecy (he is a prime potential target for Arab terrorists). During Israel's 1948 war for independence, he smuggled nine war-surplus C-46s and a Constellation out of the U.S. to Israel (on the pretext of starting a civilian line in Panama), then surrendered to the FBI and was fined $10,000 for violating the U.S. arms embargo to Palestine. The smuggling helped create the Israeli Air Force, in which Schwimmer served as its first chief engineer. After...