Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success owes itself to McGovern, best known for her acclaimed screen performances in Ordinary People and Ragtime. McGovern's history of playing sophisticated, mildly brash characters equips her well for the role of Viola, and the physical similarity between her and her stage brother Antonio (John Leighton) makes the ruse all the more entertaining. Although McGovern does have a tendency to draw out the delivery of her lines, disrupting the otherwise lively syncopation of the rest of the cast, her performance is, on the whole, solid...
ENTER, CHARLY. The wine commercial turns out to be an Israeli ruse to lure her to Greece where, according to the plan, she will ensnare the randy Michel and his brother Khalil with her womanly wiles...
Lessing decided to end the ruse after word of Somers' true identity began to leak out. But she is amazed that none of the books' readers or reviewers were able to identify her prose. "We thought we couldn't possibly get away with it," she told TIME. "The single most astonishing fact is that nobody guessed it was me." The mild ripple created by her books was less surprising. "A very good first novel can get published and get good reviews and then vanish," she said. "Few publishers have the attitude they used to have: keep...
...come the practice of celebrity politics. Remember the rock'n'roll politics of the 1980 campaign, where musicians like the Gregg Allman Band, Linda Ronstadt, and Willie Nelson lent their public image for limited political exploitation? This year Ronald Reagan has been the most effective practitioner of this ruse, craftily manipulating the names and photos of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and others for his own re-election...
...Sovietologist who began his TIME career as a summer trainee in the magazine's Moscow bureau in 1969. Last week Talbott, on his twelfth visit to the Soviet Union, filed his observations of the Soviet foreign policy process. He confesses to once having employed a small ruse in an effort to interview the close-mouthed Gromyko. During a 1978 Moscow meeting between the Soviet Foreign Minister and then Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Talbott borrowed a camera and joined the photographers' pool. "When Gromyko came near," Talbott recalls, "I stepped forward, introduced myself and asked him a couple...