Racial taunts from Sir (it is the 60's, after all) do not stop this exotic visitor, played by Douglas McLaughlin, from successfully playing the Game.
Her laughter is partly a way to shake off the intimations of risk and loneliness that shadow her tale, but she is also genuinely tickled by the picture of herself successfully playing an unaccustomed and unlikely role.
The research shows that the role of gathering places can be successfully played by quasi-public spaces, such as: club spaces, spaces owned by various institutions (churches, railways, cultural institutions) and also private places.
In this battle, he has successfully played by the international rule book.
It has been, in my view, a great con game successfully played by the clerical regime to make the nuclear issue the almost sole focal point of its relations with the U.S. and the West.
If these tactics work, and health reform fails, think of the message this would convey: It would signal that any effort to deal with the biggest budget problem we face will be successfully played by political opponents as an attack on older Americans.
Mr. Fiennes has made smart choices here, notably by surrounding himself with a strong secondary cast (the smaller roles are less successfully played), and by hiring the cinematographer Barry Ackroyd.
By contrast, Mr. Santorum has successfully played up his own working-class credentials, something he is planning to do with more focus in coming battlegrounds like Ohio.
Metalclad has successfully played the victim, oppressed by what Nafta calls "intervention" and what used to be called "democracy".
The endings of Antrim's novels almost invariably disappoint, if only because he so successfully plays can-you-top-this that, by the close, it's as if he's not sure where else he can turn.
