Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process of redistricting must change. No political party's leadership should be able to stack the deck in its own favor. The redrawing of the political map must be achieved impartially. The Bureau of the Census can do the job. Districts should 1) encompass populations of roughly similar sizes within each state, 2) be contiguous and "star-shaped" (a line can be drawn from the center to any point on the border without exiting the district), 3) respect town borders whenever possible and 4) be drawn with the same basic criteria in every state...
...there is an even more pertinent question: How can one man with a deck of cards create an evening of theater brimming with such unflagging surprise? "The trend toward overelaborate theater led me to this," he explains. "The kind of thing where people think more about helicopters than actors. The idea of walking onstage with a deck of cards and entertaining for an evening seemed a lovely way to go against the trend...
...unforced skill with which the star manipulates his 52 assistants. A masterly marksman, he can scale an ordinary playing card across the stage with such force that it pierces a watermelon, and can rocket a card to decapitate a plastic duck. He can make a card rise from the deck as if by levitation, or tear one up and make it reappear whole. In Jay's supple hands, what is commonly known as a card trick is something approaching art. To watch him work a deck is to see him write haiku in the air, four times a week...
...trap door); this hollow, thin stage helped four slim girls with tap shoes register a 6.0 on the Richter scale in the first scene. The remnants of the pool are beautiful: an old sloped roof gives the feeling of a small playhouse, while brass guard-rails, a grey marble deck, ornate stone ledges and an enormous marble sculpture of Neptune's head at center stage remind us of why Adams was once called the `Gold Coast...
...fairy, who hands out fliers saying that "If Brown scores, You win a Pizza." Seriously, this is a man (said to be the owner of the joint) who dresses up in a green, red and white jester outfit--sort of what the jocker looks like in a deck of playing cards--except that this guy is for real...