Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this quirky storytelling device meant to lend intellectual gloss to an apparently slight tale? Is Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr., whose works (The Dining Room, The Perfect Party) are often short on incident but long on sly allusion and will-o'-the-wisp charm, once again slipping away from consummation of a plot? Beneath the winsome comedy, Gurney is playing with the Whitmanesque notion that each man contains multitudes. When the two Sues contemplate a nude sketch of the boy -- all that lingers from the maybe affair -- what they term "very good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering...
Given the bloody history of recent terrorist attacks and the resulting U.S. bombing raid on Tripoli and Benghazi in April, American reporters had good reason to go after the story. But they were chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. The Washington Post claimed last week that the rumors over Libya had been instigated by the Administration in a "secret and unusual campaign of deception" to destabilize Muammar Gaddafi...
...last August, denounced the U.S. action and said that the U.S.S.R. too would resume testing. The Soviet news agency TASS described the U.S. test, which was code-named Mighty Oak, as a "dangerous destabilizing step" and an indication that the Reagan Administration "is still chasing the will-o'-the- wisp of military superiority...
...floats back to life on a wisp of fresh, light air, and all of a sudden you realize it is this green that you've missed for too long...
Like every politician, Ferraro is not above pandering or a wisp of demagoguery. She advertises her Italian Americanism: "No one could be more patriotic than an immigrant's daughter nominated to be the Vice President of the United States...