Word: pieds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditioning engineer whom most magicians consider the greatest card manipulator extant; Percy Diaconis, a Harvard Ph.D. in statistics and inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards...
...penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen. In the final crunch of negotiation, they discover that he is a tough bargainer. To use his own favorite word, Davidson is a brilliant "closer"-a combination of salesman and lawyer who knows how to wrap up a deal and make it stick...
...PI. COTS...
Imagine dinner at a grand luxe restaurant. The satiny table linen is blindingly white, the chinaware and Baccarat crystal positively glisten, the maitre d' and waiters are impeccably dressed. The diners sit down, admire the pleasing surroundings, and then comes the piéce de résistance: a greasy hamburger, accompanied by limp French fries and a fizzy concoction dosed with cyclamates. That, roughly, was what it was like at an eagerly anticipated dance event: the gala opening last week of the revitalized Harkness Ballet at the palatial new Harkness Theater near Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
Quick Hit. Last fall The Family found a home as resident company at Riverside Church, an interdenominational congregation in Manhattan. The church got a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce Piñero's Short Eyes. Short Eyes -prison slang for a child molester -plays out the ostracism and eventual murder of a prison newcomer charged with the one intolerable crime. Papp first saw the Riverside production at the urging of Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who had become interested in the group while it was forming. The play opened last month at the Public...