Word: gimmick
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...time allotted for the visit, the Governor's aide stood up and wordlessly began putting on his coat. "Oh, is it time to leave?" Governor Brown sounded truly disappointed. It was difficult to decide whether the aide's getting up so that the Governor appeared to linger was a gimmick...
...nudity, fie, says Dana Andrews, 52, new president of the Screen Actors Guild. All this film nakedness is just a producer's gimmick to hypo the box office "by having performers do something they can't do on TV." Furthermore, he harrumphed, those high-priced nudenik stars (he means Carroll Baker) are putting all kinds of pressure on newcomers to follow suitless...
...goddamned guard,' and the meeting was over.") Now that everybody else has stolen his stuff, George Halas has come up with something new -and the Chicago Bears are probably on their way to their eighth National Football League championship. Halas's latest gimmick: no gimmicks...
...Denver, though, or in many another U.S. city where police are practicing a new and legal gimmick for encouraging confessions. The standard sobriety tests-picking up poker chips from the floor, walking a painted line, touching the nose while the eyes are closed-are all recorded by a movie camera and a sound track. When the case comes to trial, the film is produced as the prosecution's most persuasive evidence...
Extraordinarily high bail for arrested demonstrators is also a highly popular gimmick, useful for depleting the treasuries of civil rights organizations. Some...