Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Humphrey's campaign aides admit that he isn't a fiery, exciting campaigner, but in a year of Reaganism, backing the Great Communicator to the hilt may just do the trick. His edge in campaign financing won shurt either; in what is the most expensive campaign in New Hampshire history. Humphrey will spend about $1.2 million, $300,000 more than his opposition...
...Nicaraguan diplomacy has left the United States in the unenviable position of refusing a peace treaty--that profered recently by the Contadora group of Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Venzuela. Rather than budge the Nicaraguan junta, Reagan's policies have succeeded only in winning sympathy for the Sandinistas, no easy trick given the regime's lengthening track-record of repression and economic failure. The current furor over the publication of a CIA manual for political terrorism, assassination, and psychological terror only underscores the moral turpitude of the Reagan Administration, and takes the pressure of the Sandanistas to behave...
...senior left wing, mired in a scoring slump, broke our with a hat trick and led the 14th-ranked Crimson (now 7-1-1) to its biggest upset of the year, a 3-1 thrashing of fifth-ranked Boston College...
Such bully tactics, surprising for such an ostensibly tolerant profession, underlie other literature in the field. They represent variations on the old debating trick of attacking opposing views--Impute the worst motives to those who somehow don't see the light. But what the psychiatrists are doing is more dangerous: they want to impute psychological deficiency to those in the dark about the nuclear peril. In an article on their nuclear task force work, Mack and Beardslee in effect generalize this psychological deficiency as a cultural trait of the U.S. populace: "The fact that there is so little information available...
...with a cast that was 80% black could easily fall prey to presumption and condescension. The pleasant surprise of The Brother is how gracefully Sayles earns smiles and sympathy for his hero (Joe Morton) and his lank, loping comedy. In a rattling subway car, a cardsharp announces his next trick-"Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?"-as the subway doors open at the last uptown express stop before Harlem...