stratagem

The actress continued with the National Theatre for another two years including a performance as Mrs Sullen in the Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem in Los Angeles.

Some of the justices constructing this two-tiered system have used every legal stratagem at their disposal to ensure that their own misconduct isn’t subject to broad public scrutiny and evaluation, thwarting ethics rules to keep their ill-begotten spoils a secret from the public, rebuffing congressional requests, and ignoring invitations to testify.

That’s the unfortunate stratagem Katy Perry resorts to at the end of her new album, “143,” in a groaner of a closer called “Wonder” that features a guest turn by the singer’s 4-year-old daughter, Daisy.

Thankfully, we are at a point now where so many journalists and academics recognize that the chaos was a smokescreen, designed to cover very well-laid-out plans that had a rationale stratagem.

Will Toranaga let his old friend kill himself in order to perpetuate what might be a carefully constructed stratagem?