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...Vesco's grandiose expansion plans, they allowed him to buy them out for only $12,500 (all except Rothschild, who stayed in and after 18 months made a profit of more than $1 million on his $250,000 investment). By 1965 Vesco had incorporated his company, and by financial sleight of hand, he took his International Controls Corp. public without sec scrutiny. He bought controlling shares of a public company, merged it with ICC, and renamed the resulting company ICC. Presto: he was a publicly traded company. He had also accomplished his two other goals: he had his own firm...
...high school, I played guitar with a band called Sleight of Hand. Some of the other members are graduating from Berklee College of Music...So there's a chance I may take a year off and tour with the band...In two years, I'm committed to attending Harvard [for law school...
...Citizen Kane's" storytelling and performances are enhanced by Gregg Toland's masterful photography. Each moment is a sleight of light. As Kane reads his publishing "Declaration of Principles" in a moment of giddy righteousness, Toland manages to keep Kane perpetually in an opaque shadow while fully lighting the other actors in the scene; even when one moves to Kane's side, they remain as day and night to each other, foreshadowing the depths to which Kane will soon sink...
...literary subversion. It should not draw a Fundamentalist fatwa, though beef lobbyists and overweight- pride groups may grumble about the ceaseless bashing of carnivores and the amply proportioned. Theroux's main dodge is to see American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing host of a TV kiddie show who is a child...
Most important, however, is the question: Will all the bureaucratic sleight-of-hand which has characterized Epps' tenure as Race Czar amount to substantial improvements in campus race relations...