Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KATHLEEN M. SLEIGHT Dearborn, Mich...
...thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician James Randi, who had been present, duplicated each of his feats, explaining that any magician could perform them. The fork bending, said Randi, was accomplished by sleight of hand; after distracting his audience, Geller had simply bent it with his two hands...
...ambitious Sullivan has sometimes been accused of "sleight-of-mouth" tricks-of changing his views to suit the policy of the moment. The reason is that he frequently argues his own views with passion but, when overruled, feels obligated to argue the official view with equal fervor. As ambassador, he pleaded eloquently against any allied invasion of Laos; back in Washington in early 1971, he argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal...
...audience-and later, television viewers-witnessed was a public demonstration of Johnson's severe heart disease and his characteristic determination not to yield to it. "It was almost the greatest pain you ever saw," he said later about the crushing pressure on his chest (angina pectoris). By sleight of hand he had transferred a nitroglycerin tablet from pocket to mouth and slipped it under his tongue. This gave immediate relief from pain...
There was no need for translation, however, when they took to the stage of the Civic Opera. For this performance the Shenyang troupe used no tightropes and no trapezes. They did not heighten the drama of their performance with drum rolls or tense pauses. Their sleight of hand was charmingly, almost childishly transparent. The easiest of the stunts were executed with painstaking care; the most difficult were tossed off nonchalantly. Two girls juggled china vases with their feet. A man did a handstand atop a rickety pyramid of tables, chairs and bricks, then deliberately collapsed the pyramid...