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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true actor should be, he is an interpretive artist, not a personality merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Introverted Englishman | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...abduction from the seraglio is the prettiest piece of acrobatic larceny since the heist scene in Topkapi, and in the last reel Director Ronald Neame (The Horse's Mouth) contrives five trick endings in rapid succession that finish the film with a rousing funfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How to Lift a Bust | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...frequently employs a split-screen technique, puttting two or more different images on the screen simultaneously, separated by black dividing lines. This enables him to avoid the challenge of coming to grips with Super Panavision. Unable to put shots together with any art or precision, he resorts to tricks; Grand Prix is filled with multiple image shots and dream shots done with prisms. His over-all use of trick photography is never relevant, always self-conscious and arbitrary. Grand Prix really has no color either, only color tone carefully inserted by the laboratories, probably when they discovered that...

Author: By Sam Ecureil, | Title: Grand Prix | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...stunned Smole countered this dastardly democratic behavior with an old Western parliamentary trick of his own. In a denouement without precedent in the Communist world, he and his executive council resigned-on the grounds that they had lost a no-confidence vote. The Parliament hastily convened to ask Smole & Co. to stay on as a caretaker government until a new one could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Canceling the Rubber Stamp | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted, using such evidence as Osborn's tape-recorded words violated the Fifth Amendment as well, because the Government can thereby "make a man talk against his will." And suppose the tape is "rigged" by skillful editing? That trick may be virtually undetectable, warned Douglas; yet his brethren have now approved Osborn-style bugging as "well-nigh conclusive proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A Pragmatic View of Privacy | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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