Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather obvious police shadowing that had to be put up with in Rumania, our people suffered no pressures, were allowed to work freely for the most part. Perhaps the worst experience they encountered was that old Balkan bugaboo of night driving with the lights now off, now on. The trick is to switch the lights off and use those of the approaching car. Trouble is that the approaching car is playing the same game and, as Rademaekers recalls, "cars roll blindly at each other for sickening seconds before flicking their lights on again...
Nothing is more boring and embarrassing than an amateur conjurer. Magic must be perfect; real rabbits must emerge from the trick hat. The reader, noting that Sylvia Ashton-Warner's novel is dedicated to a river (New Zealand's Whanganui), that among the chief characters are 13 darling children, most of them under one tin roof, and that various Maori gods and spirits are freely invoked, may suspect that he is being conjured into accepting a crock of anthropological whimsy. Not so; the magic here is real...
...trick is to check it out on flesh col or. If TINT is turned too far in one direction, people on the screen are complexioned a passionate purple; too far the other way, and they turn a gaseous green. When flesh tints are finally adjusted, the viewer will find that other colors are as well. Even the networks calibrate their cameras by zeroing in on so-called "color girls," who stand in with their flesh for 20 minutes before shooting starts...
...speech, O'Brien was escorted by a small security guard of Harvard leftists to a party held in his honor. He knew only a few of the forty or so in attendance, but seemed to have friends in common with most everyone. It would have been no easy trick picking the former Irish diplomat out from among the Cambridge crowd. He held his glass as deftly as anyone. He did speak with a slight accent, but it could almost as well have been English as Irish...
Putting on a serious, offtimes metaphysical work of this sort in a House dining room is no easy trick. It's not hard to design a ludicrous set for such a theatre--or such a play--and nearly impossible to design a workable one. But the Lowell House set, consisting of a couple of pseudo-pop-art posters flanking a Heaven platform and an Earth platform...