Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Yearbook photographer; Fuddy Duddying Theatricals; Dow Demonstration Team; Harvard Karate Club; Lemming Club, H-R SDS; ROTC Trick Knee Team; Senior Prom Committee; Bob Dylan Fan Club...
...high school they boo when you drop it," Tuckwiller said, "but here they laugh." His best trick is a high throw and somersault combination he thought up as he went to sleep the night before a game...
...original. He has moved virtually every incident of the novel into his script. But in doing so, he, with Schlesinger's twitchy camera, have served up more plot than the film's skimpy characterization can plaster together. Perhaps as a unification device, Schlesinger again hauls out his Darling trick of beginning the dialogue of the next scene while still presenting a first one. No scene is presented at any great length, except the the key one in which Stamp wins Miss Christie with a flashing display of sword exercises on a sweeping Dorset Hill...
...Shrewd Tricks. Brooklyn-reared Rosenthal showed his talent for making money soon after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business ('56) and landed a $4,000-a-year job at the prestigious investment-banking house of Lehman Bros. In four years of shrewd stock trading ("I used every trick"), he managed to turn his own $2,500 nest egg into nearly $1,000,000. Then he launched out as an underwriter...
...feel that their existence is a cheat: "To be told so little to such an end-and still-finally-to be denied an explanation." Here and elsewhere, Stoppard comes perilously close to singing the self-pity blues, or life-is-a-dirty-trick. All men and women submit to fate, but they are not all Rosencrantzes and Guildensterns...