Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costumed in flying togs, Danny Kaye set off from New York's La Guardia Airport to pilot a friend's twin-engined jet to nine U.S. cities to whoop up support for the Halloween "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" campaign. The idea was for the kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed...
...second approach would have smacked very much of a cheap trick, for most of the time the actors would parody their parts--which would not be hard. Occasionally the masks would have fallen off. This too would have echoed a theme of the play: pretense vs. reality. The effect would have been outrageous. At one point last night Ellery Akers (Lucille) and Peter Johnson (Blanchard) came close to this style. they played the beginning of the third act like an episode out of "I Love Lucy." But the characters never dropped their masks. Their real emotions never became apparent...
...their chessboard of familiar concepts; they are addicted to it and addicts are always disillusioned, according to Leary. What is paradoxical, however--and Leary admits it--is that the human nervous system does cry out for a single regime, a game of some sort. The trick then is to choose an addiction that isn't closed, a game with an out. Such is the game Leary plays with drugs, such are the literary games played by James Joyce and William Burroughs--two of Leary's favorites. Psychedelics offer such a way out because the "high" experience is different every time...
...Trick. The first revolt was staged by a lowly lieutenant colonel in an army overloaded with generals. His name was Untung,* which means "Good Luck," and he commanded a battalion in the palace guards. He launched his troops on a double mission: to round up 20 generals and seize Radio Indonesia...
Former Deputy Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos, a 66-year-old bachelor, had turned the trick when he swore in as members of his new "coalition" Cabinet loannis Glavanis and Isador Mavri-doglou, two of the latest defectors from Papandreou's onetime majority party, the Center Union. They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152. Before and during the noisy debate that led up to the final vote, Papandreou's men in Parliament were reduced to chanting insults and spreading the rumor that one of the defectors had died...