Word: tricksters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...services apparently went to the politico willing to do the most in return. Jones could deliver, even if his political army was somehow reminiscent of Nixon's Youth in 1972, that wonderful army that would begin spontaneous cheering at 9:28 and spontaneously stop at 9:33, when the Trickster would spontaneously appear. If you didn't believe it was spontaneous, you could look at their mimeographed schedules--it said so right there. Of course, there's nothing new about staged politics, but the use of ostensibly religious groups as campaign auxiliaries and political chips somehow menaces...
...Ministry official. "Since it comes from the U.S., the Soviets know they must be realistic about it." Taking the same position, Columnist Andre Fontaine of the influential, left-leaning Le Monde adds: "It would be paradoxical if the Soviets, who succeeded in coming to an agreement with an inveterate trickster like Mr. Nixon, were unable to do the same with an honest man." Some analysts even believe that by introducing the human rights issue early on, Carter successfully "tested" the Soviets before they had a chance to test him. As Kremlinologist Carl Linden of George Washington University sees it, Carter...
...order to upset their concentration before they go on-stage to face the judges. Katz's musculature may, on one level, set him irrevocably apart from the rest of us, but his sweet sporting spirit as he sits trying to absorb his defeat while graciously applauding a trickster's win is something with which any weekend athlete who has been one-upped by an allegedly friendly opponent can identify...
...years ago, Ernst was still a minority taste (a large minority, it is true). But when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile trickster, and we will not see his like again. He was, with the more phlegmatic Rene Magritte, the best of all the artists connected with surrealism-the master of the "alternative" tradition of mystery, unreason and demonic...
...have one of the great forearms in tennis," suggested Political Trickster Dick Tuck. "To strain my arm in this would have been foolish, so I didn't." Tuck's comments were a waggish explanation for his defeat in the Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney held last week in Manhattan. While bartenders boosted the spirits of waiting contestants, Actor Peter Boyle, Singer Mac Davis, ex-Housewife Pat Loud and nine others soon joined Tuck in the loser's circle. The women's division championship went to Model Margaux Hemingway, whose vigorous gum-chewing...