Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion was immediate. "A cheap and partisan trick," snapped Richard Nixon. Senate Republican Leader "Ev" Dirksen declared that Udall apparently wanted to become "Secretary of the Exterior and take over a domain in which he has no business." And President Kennedy, struggling to achieve a bipartisan atmosphere, said he was "strongly opposed to anyone within or without the Administration at tempting to shift the responsibility...
Subsequent foolery had Kovacs in a Cecil B. DeMille suit, grafted by trick camera work on antique film clips as a furious and futile director. The joke dragged on too long. But it was followed by one inspired bit of mockery: an immense, grossly fat ballerina staggering to the first crashing chords of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, with the rest of that philharmonic turkey illustrated by rhythmically cracking celery and splattering eggs...
...Boyden, Captain of the crew for the second year. A terrific competitor, Boyden has a special motive for desiring a winning boat: A victory over Yale at New London this year would put him in the select company of strokes who have beaten the Eli four years running--a trick last accomplished by Gerry Cassedy...
Mayor Robert Wagner, with up-for-re-election-year cheer, had announced the neat trick of balancing this budget with no increase in tax rates and no new taxes...
Whether realistic or abstract, sculpture is essentially form that has been frozen: the trick is to make the form throb with life. The abstract constructions that lined the walls of Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last week gave the illusion in their own ways. One piece was a swirl that seemed to spill from the ceiling; another was a maze of darting shafts (see color opposite). Some of the sculptures, when touched, danced like plants swaying under water; others, when plucked, sang like a forest in the wind. Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 46, is only one of many artists...