Word: sleight
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...show certain to wow children and win more than indulgent approval from their parents. Headed by Paul Tripp. who created the excellent Mr. I. Magination in 1949, It's Magic devotes a swift-paced half hour to the Black Arts. Gali Gali, a sleight-of-hand Egyptian, displayed a witty routine involving empty eggcups and a small barnyard of baby chicks; three attractively inept dancers with the help of a black backdrop and black-garbed assistants suavely defied gravity; Dominique, a French pickpocket, took a spectator's shirt from his back without his knowing...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...
Fundamental single wing football, with the emphasis on blocking and tackling instead of sleight of hand, were down a good Yale team Saturday in the Stadium and brought the Crimson its first Big Three title since...
...statistical sleight of hand, Tsarapkin implied that profits on U.S. private investment overseas average 85%, or $1.5 billion a year on a yearly investment of $1.75 billion. Hotchkis pointed out that profits are returned not on the current year's investment alone, but on the total investment, i.e., $1.5 billion on $16 billion, or less than 10%. On gross profits, said Hotchkis, the investors pay foreign taxes of more than 30%. Of the net profits, they plow back well over half -62% in 1952-into reinvestment in the countries where the profits were earned...
Last week the U.S. Senate showed rare skill at sleight of hand. In one and the same motion, it passed the Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood bill by an impressive 57-to-28 vote and killed the chances of both territories for this year. Reason: the bill, as many of the Senators were fully aware, cannot get through the House...