Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed a flourish of movements, he has a trick of presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked that resident dancers gather...
Died. Willis Harold O'Brien, 76, longtime moviemaker who ushered in Hollywood's monster era with his trick photography of dinosaurs and other enormous beasts; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. O'Brien's monsters were, of course, tiny movable models photographed a few frames at a time, a technique best remembered in his 1933 classic King Kong, in which a mammoth ape invaded Manhattan, wound up atop the Empire State Building batting away U.S. fighter planes like so many gnats...
Super Swords shave so smoothly because Wilkinson turned a trick that most cutlery makers thought impossible: it managed to put a really keen, lasting edge on stainless steel. But to slow-moving Wilkinson the runaway success of its blades was just a beastly bother, and it refused to move quickly to step up production to meet demand. In fact, Wilkinson's bosses make little secret of the fact that their primary interest is in promoting the steady sales of their high-priced garden tools-among them, the three-edged "swoe" (sword-hoe), which Wilkinson considers the first improvement...
...scoring his fourth touchdown in a single afternoon, Taylor broke a University mark (Charlie Ravanel scored three against Columbia in 1959) and tied an Ivy League record. Hewes Agnew has been the only other player to do the trick, scoring four times for Princeton...
Though Actress Wood is everything anybody could ask (5 ft. 2 in., 98 Ibs.) of a cute little trick, she can hardly fill the billing (5 ft. 9½ in., 130 Ibs.) of the lusty, busty broad who was known as "the Gene Tunney of burlesque." But thanks to Director Mervyn LeRoy, the show itself is remarkably well-built-big and brassy, loud and fast. As for Actress Russell, she defies description...