Word: sleight
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...could sing, “Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England / Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?” without it clunking in the ear like a trash-compactor, but the line slips past barely noticed in Vega’s sleight of voice. The genius of Vega lies in her ability to write songs that creep up on you slowly, insinuating themselves with their skillfully painted character sketches and wistful tales with an unexpected sting in their tail: “If I Were a Weapon” concludes, “Well...
...bonds or not, this is government debt - the same thing both parties were railing against just a week ago. And while neither Democrat nor Republican will be uttering the words "lock box" for a very long time, this is also the return of the kind of sleight-of-hand accountancy by which politicians put spending overruns on the federal books under a heading that grants it political immunity...
...that just sleight of hand? Was Microsoft contained, or merely redirected? The company's new operating system may play fair, but Microsoft?s browser, Internet Explorer, has achieved a 90-plus percent dominance in the Web-surfing market - and its new incarnation, IE6, may be quietly getting up to Gates? old monopolistic tricks, version...
...afraid not. No excuse, no rationale will work - and especially not the foxy formulations some have attempted in Joe Ellis' defense, positively Gallic sleight-of-hand about the elusive interplay between truth and fantasy in the recounting of history...
...Evil works by sleight of hand: Poof! Your child is gone. Her life and all the details of it - clothes, computer, pocket book and so on - are just as she left them. But her keys are missing. And she is...where...