Word: sleight
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Keynesian in approach, an anti-inflationary manipulation aimed at curbing a surging economy. It appeared to many to be a bit of sleight of hand as well, and it did, to be sure, depend rather heavily on some imponderables. For one thing, the President was relying on congressional passage of his various tax programs, which may face some opposition. Beyond that, Government forecasts have averaged an almost 9% error on revenues, more than 6% on spending. This year's budget totals, said a White House aide, are "highly uncertain." As it now stands, the administrative budget, not counting...
Back in the 1930s, surrealism was hot news, with its limp watches, ovarian vegetables and chance encounters between sewing machines and umbrellas on dissecting tables. Last week, in what amounted to an unexpected revival, two practitioners of that sleight of art were back on the boards in Manhat tan, looking for all the world like the ghost of Christmas Past...
...pure sleight of hand, then, when the slick, funky, jazz in the background reminds us that this boy knows the sore; he has lived with the blues. Miss Clarke throws in an ineffectual white schoolteacher to thump the point home. She used the same heavy-handed stroke of irony with the paunchy filmmaker in The Connection...
...Murphy game" is underworld argot for a slick maneuver in which a victim puts his cash in an envelope and gives it to the con man, who makes a fast sleight-of-hand switch and hands back an identical envelope stuffed with newspaper strips. It was named after an Irishman who was arrested many times for perpetrating such tricks...
Whittling. And just how might this bit of fiscal sleight of hand be accomplished? For one thing, Johnson has whittled away $300 million from military spending (see Defense), bringing his yearly request to $49 billion...