Word: sleight
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...glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...
...major conflicts of the campaign so far revolve around Carey's opposition to the death penalty and his acceptance of large campaign contributions from his brother Ed. The governor, in turn, has flailed away at Duryea--a millionaire lobsterman from conservative Eastern Long Island--for alleged sleight-of-hand in putting much of his fortune in his wife's name shortly before filing a campaign financial statement. The level of discourse, as shown in one of the candidates' recent debates, has sunk to about the third-grade range...
...album is a fine bit of syncopated genealogy, running past the sophisticated musical abstractions of Beiderbecke (Flashes, In a Mist) into the knife-edge humor of a minstrel-show song like Nobody and the surprising sleight-of-hand pride in a "coon song" like Shine. The music passes right through Jelly Roll...
...Shakespeare Bros., who do comedy, clowning, juggling and various other stunts, a magician who is nothing short of amazing and The Amazing Fantasy Jugglers, who are truly fantastic. These acts get started around 5 p.m. and keep it up almost all night. The magician does jaw-opening sleight of hand and his Houdini finale is incredible, even after the third time...
...blouses for 1½ pence each. Charlie's great character was a memory of that Dickensian experience, a waif in the tradition of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos, a dance. And indeed, as The Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. In classics like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into a feast, a torn newspaper enjoyed a new career as a lace tablecloth...