Word: sleight
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...were actually lower than in 1965. Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits tax is a silly tax." It did not work well at all during the Korean War. Such a tax now might only prompt executives to hide their companies' real earnings by accounting sleight-of-hand, or to squander in expense-account living the money that they otherwise report in profits. Moreover, businessmen use earnings for a large part of their investment in plant expansion and modernization-and any reduction in that would not only make the U.S. less competitive in the world...
Taken merely as a contrived symbol, the star would be only a bit of mys- tical sleight of hand, but Rosenzweig clearly meant it to be a demonstration of both ontological truth and an ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of reality. By their blood inheritance of God's ancient Covenant with Abraham, the Jews have the truth in as rich abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star...
...different sort of assassination plot. It works as well as it does because the academics he portrays are teasingly out of character in their commitment to violence, yet touched by an anger and frustration now frighteningly familiar. It would be unfair to Hunter and his readers to reveal his sleight-of-hand device. But the result is an intriguing handicapper's book, a second-guessing game of truth and its consequences...
...Sherlock Jr., he rode the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle. In Steamboat Bill Jr., he flew through the air on a trunkless tree. In Our Hospitality, he went over a waterfall. When he employed sleight of lens, it was to achieve effects normally seen only on canvas. In The Frozen North, he climbed subway stairs-and emerged in Alaska. In The Playhouse, he staged a minstrel show with nine Busters. In the Pirandelloesque Daydreams, he left life to climb into a film within a film...
Victor Frenkil has always enjoyed doing tricks with money. One of the Baltimore contractor's favorite stunts is to twist a dollar bill into the shape of a politician's last initial and present it to him as a gift. Frenkil's sleight of hand is not confined to parlor tricks. As contractor for the House of Representatives' underground garage, completed in 1967, he has been trying for the past four years to parlay an $11.8 million contract into a $16.8 million windfall. He has managed to enlist the aid of some powerful political assistants...