Word: tricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm. Far flashier was Director John Frankenheimer, whose busy directorial conceits-trick angles, mirror shots, closeups to the pore, camera peeps through iron grilles, even the little photographer's aperture-often upstaged the work itself while accenting its hollow passion. Sometimes the tricks of the director, working in tandem with the star-crossed lovers and their rococo surroundings, were more attention-catching than the story...
...unlikely topic and pulled off one of the best shows of its season. The subject: The New Class, the anti-Communist political tract by Recanting Red Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav long beleaguered and now in prison for turning on the party and Dictator Tito. Armstrong's program-saving trick was to ignore the dialectic of the book, concentrate instead on the spectacle of a man standing alone against his old comrades...
When Russia shot the first Sputnik into space, Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, just retired, called it a "nice technical trick." Said Charlie Wilson last week when he heard the news about the Army's Explorer (which he had helped sidetrack while in office): "It is a good technical trick, and I am happy that it is a success...
...come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel, suffers at the hands of Scriptwriter-Director Joseph Mankiewicz an even more drastic devaluation of its intellectual currency...
...caught dead with a conventional notion about sex, "I want you to have girls, though." He sobs, and she promises, with a ghastly smile, "I'll come and stay with you nights." She dies murmuring Hemingway's definition of death: "It's just a dirty trick...