Word: sleight-of-hand
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...show we solved that with a bit of engineering sleight-of-hand. We've created what I call the amazing disappearing mouth, which will appear when he's speaking, then disappear when he's done...
...also the pinnacle of fame for sleight-of-hand magicians, such as Robert Houdin...
...doesn't work very well in a serious life. The thing about the present is precisely its confused instability, its blurriness, its sleight-of-hand. Now you see it, now you don't. It is a fog of particles in motion, a montage of denial and fantasy and sidelong perception. And therefore a most congenial medium for the current President...
Blaine should know. In the past few years he has sprung his deadpan, charismatic sleight-of-hand in hip hangouts on both coasts, impressing some of the biggest names in show business--including Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Geffen, Mike Tyson and Madonna. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have befriended him. At a party after the Grammys this year, Blaine sidled up to hot young singer Fiona Apple; today they are a couple. "David's magic reduces you to being three years old," says Apple, "that complete wonderment with the world...
...Worker retraining. Another good idea--except Clinton wanted to force employers to create their own programs, on penalty of having to pay a new, mandatory 1.5% payroll tax. Political error! The tax threat exposed the attempted sleight-of-hand a bit too nakedly. It was never enacted...