Word: trickyness
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THE SOVIET UNION. For all the ritual pledges of allegiance to détente in both Moscow and Washington, the Nixon Administration's dealings with Russia face tests in several tricky areas. In Europe there are the plodding negotiations on East-West political relations in Geneva and the talks...
But the fact that Willy disbelieves his own dreams does not prevent him from suspending that disbelief at the slightest provocation. It is this absurdly myopic vision of ours which keeps us from going quite mad--for how can one believe that Sisyphus would ever again put his shoulder to...
Reporters discovered only recently that Kissinger is fascinated by soccer, and as a boy in Germany played goalie until he broke his hand. Then he shifted to forward. Somebody asked him if he had been fast. Kissinger thought a moment. "I wasn't so fast, but I was tricky...
Noel Coward himself acted in the London production of Private Lives is the 1930's (as Elyot), and he found it a trying, though successful, experience: "It was more tricky and full of pitfalls than anything I have ever attempted as an actor." Hutson and Lewis, as Elyot and Amanda...
After the student-worker upheavals of 1968, Chirac conducted some of the tricky negotiations with union leaders on labor reforms that ended the crisis. When Pompidou moved to the Elysée, he brought his bulldozer into the Cabinet as Agriculture Minister and later Interior Minister. Several years ago, Chirac...