Word: sleight
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...what portion has been stretched thin, and which scrunched up. There is, however, after a point, something off about the fluid violence wrought by technological flourish, la Raiders of the Lost Ark. Even though the effect is a harmless optical trick, there is something staggering about knowing that the sleight of hand required careful encoding of the body as some huge number of data points. Of course this mapping is what digital photography does anyway, and we can thank the artists both for giving us one vision of its capacities, and for reminding us that "knowing" where every point...
...Stewart segments) stick to, um, reality? Other networks turned down the technology. "People should know what they're looking at," says Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia University's journalism school. "I think some sort of disclosure or disclaimer would be appropriate." Even Rather regrets the New Year's Eve sleight of hand. "There was no ethical consideration at the time," he says. "I now know this was a mistake." But CBS News president Andrew Heyward stands behind the technology. While the Times Square incident was a "much closer call," he says, "the use on the Early program is completely appropriate...
This pedagogic sleight of hand, by the way, did not originate with religious folk. Secularists have for years been using biology instruction as a back door for inculcating their values. A sex-ed class on the proper placement of a condom is more than instruction in reproductive mechanics. It is a seminar--unacknowledged and tacit but nonetheless powerful--on permissible sexual mores...
...meeting that he would not appoint gays to any federal posts, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Bush campaign isn't talking about what happened during the meeting; the Log Cabin Republicans have asked for a clarification. Bush has so far managed to pull off the enviable political sleight-of-hand of remaining vague enough on several key issues that Republicans with widely differing views could still support him. The Log Cabin logjam may change that, and force W. to take a side he didn't really want...
...historical sleight of hand has one virtue, aside from creating commercially valuable buzz. Trying to thread one's way through what is made up and what is real in this book is not unlike being around the actual Reagan, who invented statistics, replayed movie plots as if they were history and answered questions with such bewildering non sequiturs that interrogators were stunned into silence. This biography could have been called Zelig Meets Chauncey Gardner...