Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proof in the form of a new report on weapons costs. Spinney's boss, David Chu, promised the Senate Armed Services Committee "a pleasant surprise." The Pentagon unveiled the document last week, and the chief surprise turned out to be how clumsy it had been in practicing accounting sleight of hand...
...wave pop and the sight (Yawn) of black vinyl spinning on a record player. But look again. What appears to be a spinning record is actually the perfect curve of a racetrack, filmed from far above, the spinning effect achieved by race cars circling in parallel formation. This cinematographic sleight-of-hand is just the first drop in a cascade of sensory jokes and puns that keep this sophisticated bit of flotsam bubbling along. The viewer can't help but go happily with the flow...
Point-man Calvin Dixon led the way, zipping no-look passes and driving through Jiangsu defenders to net lay-ups or dish off to a teammate for an easy bucket. Dixon led the transition with his now-you-see-it-now-you-don't sleight of hand, dazzling the slower and less graceful Chinese...
...when, at the beginning, Philostrate, master of King Theseus' revels, makes his way through the underbrush and starts doing card tricks, he creates a mild sense of foreboding. Magician Ricky Jay is a deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
Such distortions, unsettling enough in the abstract, in practical terms undermined Crile and Adams' often substantial case. In one instance of sleight of hand, Westmoreland was shown apparently acknowledging awareness of a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington at which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to stay be low a ceiling of 300,000. But Westmoreland's remarks were directed to an entirely different meeting that took place in Saigon. For his part, the general has claimed that he was sandbagged by Wal lace and Crile, that he was not informed in detail about what...