Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every politician has a trick or two up his sleeve, but West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has worked wonders. During the annual summer festival (this year's theme: Philosophers' Reverie) on the chancery grounds in Bonn, Schmidt got a little help from a professional conjurer and presto! levitated a woman. Then the Chancellor jubilantly passed a hoop over her body to show that it was not supported by wires. Why mix politics and magic? Like the levitated body, explained Schmidt, "problems are suspended and have to be solved...
...delights in illusions and confusions, puns and verbal crostics, taking away with his left hand what he has just given with his right. In Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at Washington's Kennedy Center, he has taken his art to its immediate limit: the play itself is a trick...
Actually, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor is not merely a play, but a play for actors and orchestra, and therein lies the trick. One of the two main characters, the mad Ivanov (John Wood), believes that he owns an orchestra, and is put in a Soviet insane asylum...
What can the U.S. do to prop up the dollar? In the long run, only a drop in the inflation rate (currently about 11%) and a further reduction in the trade deficit will do the trick. But there are some immediate actions that could be taken, though all involve difficulties and risks. The U.S. could...
...even though costs are spiraling, a paperback remains an exceptional entertainment value. As one reviewer once put it, "Shogun is a summer vacation." So are most other bestsellers. The trick is to book readers into the right vacation. N.A.L. hopes to sell more than 10 million copies of Fools Die and their edition of The Godfather. There are already 13 million paperback copies of the Mafia classic in print...