Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start he is sleazily pthetic, a bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain...
...last agonies of the Nixon regime, liberals grumble that he protected his President too zealously against the revelations of Watergate. Some liberals and conservatives are dismayed by Haig's alleged involvement in wiretapping while in the Nixon White House, and other conservatives consider Haig to be an opportunist...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
...links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some of his colleagues regard him as an untrustworthy opportunist because he has been known to switch allegiances within party factions. The third prospect, former Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 60, is respected as an intellectual but considered by some as too much of a gentleman to be able to control the factions...
...Islanders whisked past L.A. and are nearing their peak. Injuries to opportunist Mike Bossy (who will play) and the slick but little-noted Anders Kallur (who won't) cloud their prospects, but goalie Billy Smith has waxed brilliant--he did not permit a goal in the last 96 minutes against the prolific Kings. The cognoscent who haunt section 308 in the Nassau County Coliseum point to the simultaneous addition of Butch Goring and loss of Billy Harris as the key to the Isles' Big Mo. Islanders...