Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in the 1930s, surrealism was hot news, with its limp watches, ovarian vegetables and chance encounters between sewing machines and umbrellas on dissecting tables. Last week, in what amounted to an unexpected revival, two practitioners of that sleight of art were back on the boards in Manhat tan, looking for all the world like the ghost of Christmas Past...
...pure sleight of hand, then, when the slick, funky, jazz in the background reminds us that this boy knows the sore; he has lived with the blues. Miss Clarke throws in an ineffectual white schoolteacher to thump the point home. She used the same heavy-handed stroke of irony with the paunchy filmmaker in The Connection...
...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...
Whittling. And just how might this bit of fiscal sleight of hand be accomplished? For one thing, Johnson has whittled away $300 million from military spending (see Defense), bringing his yearly request to $49 billion...
...recent article entitled "The Failure of the Mississippi Project" should have been more appropriately entitled, "The Failure of Mississippi". It represented a neat sleight of hand, putting Mississippi on the defensive in lieu of their usual offensive position. I must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves...