Word: trickyness
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Buried in the two 1988 presidential debates, for example, are hints at some of the foreign policy missteps that would shape Bush's four years in office. Bush painted this cheery portrait of emerging freedoms in China less than a year before democracy was massacred in Tiananmen Square: "The changes...
It hasn't worked out quite that way. One year later, and with a new, more accommodating government installed in Israel, no one in the occupied territories is cheering the peace team. But their opponents are making plenty of noise. The so-called rejectionists are better organized and more determined...
The Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate...
The Kurdish question is particularly tricky. In addition to the nearly 5 million Kurds in Iraq, there are 12 million to 15 million in Turkey. A close American ally, Turkey is one of the few secular democracies in the Islamic world, making it an important positive influence in the Middle...
What saves the film from being a depressing Hollywood tribute to the breakdown of the American family is its hilarity. Woody Allen knows how to turn angst into comedy. Given Allen's domestic situation, there are many scenes that produce laughs from lines that might not otherwise have been memorable...