Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order of price and pulchritude come the girls of the Madeleine, the Gare Montparnasse. Place Pigalle and Les Halles. Britain's Street Offenses Act, passed in 1959, has ended the processions of undulating whores that used to fill up Piccadilly Circus, Bayswater Road and Hyde Park. Borrowing a trick from their sisters in Amsterdam, many London prostitutes now sit at the upper windows of scruffy Soho flats for which they pay as much as $150 per week...
...trick worked. The spectrum of one of the radio stars, 3C-273, turned out to be the spectrum of an object racing away from the earth at 31,000 miles per sec., one-sixth the speed of light. But only galaxies, which get their speed from the general expansion of the universe, can move that fast. The astronomers concluded that they were dealing not with a star but with an entire distant galaxy...
...Bolivian workers went to Cuba last year; some 400 are still there. Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico will not talk about their nationals in Cuba, but the figure runs into the thousands. Other nations frown upon travel to Castroland, but until last Feb. 15 it was no trick to fly to Mexico, where the Cuban embassy issued a visa on a slip of paper. No telltale stamp marred the passports. Now the Mexicans stamp passports "Salio a Cuba" in bold letters. But, of course, passports can be conveniently "lost." destroying the evidence...
...father, gives the father a "new purpose and a new statesmanship," and then flies back home to do the same thing of the Chief Marshal of Hungary and His son. All this action takes place within then space of one day. The seance, of course, has turned the trick. "Lay aside all our points of view," the freedom fighter tells his new friends, "and listen to the word...
...Reality may be like the figures in Plato's famous cave, where only the shadows may be seen by mortal eye. But, it is just those shadows that are the substance of art, and the business of malting a play of their flickering forms is still quite a trick...