Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chewed-Up Steel. Dentistry on the vicious and powerful baboon is quite a trick. The beast is first squeezed into the bottom of a special cage, where it gets a heavy injection of tranquilizer. Then it can be hauled off to the operating table, where anesthetic is given as needed. As in human patients, new membrane forms around the implanted tooth, Dr. Hodosh reports, with no sign so far of inflammatory or cancerous reactions...
...generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow up a provincial bridge, blame the Viet Cong, and win a fat construction contract from Saigon...
...trick is to discover a need, then find a way to fill it. Don Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth...
...skill that has possessed and apostrophized her life, she can speak with objective authority and candor, as if the poet were not even there. "Rereading my poetry the other night," she says matter-of-factly, "I was amazed at the high level of my competence. I know every technical trick. But I don't quite reach the plateau of the great poet. Eliot, Auden, Yeats-there are poets whose genius is so great I could weep over them...
Some plot surprises eventually do turn up in Brainstorm, but none sturdy enough to compete with Producer-Director William Conrad's unsettling cinematic mannerisms. He recklessly jump-cuts from scene to scene, using gimmicky transitions or linking one sequence to another with trick dialogue. Between times, the plot turns upon Jeff's illicit love for Anne and his rash notion that he can murder her sadistic mate and get away with it by feigning insanity. The deed accomplished, all goes well until his encounter with a strikingly theatrical psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors) who hints as tactfully as possible that...