Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the pragmatic economic and educational reforms that Teng consistently advocated. Hua apparently now hopes to exploit Teng's administrative skills and his program for the modernization of China, while avoiding the appearance of assailing the memory of the revered Mao. This may require a Chinese conjuring trick, considering Teng's reputation as a bureaucrat who gave little more than lip service to some of the Chairman's most cherished ideals...
...sore point is that middle-income parents may be exploiting a loophole in Health, Education and Welfare student-aid regulations to use money-totaling $3 billion this year-that might otherwise go to needier families. The trick: to plan ahead and not claim the college-bound child as an income tax exemption. The federal basic grants program considers any student not receiving more than $600 a year from his parents "independent" and thus eligible...
...picture that, not unlike Rocky, transcends its humble conception and develops what movie people used to call a "rooting interest" in its characters. That's an old, low trick, but one that has been too long lost at the movies...
...have no such qualms, and their ads fill the magazines. Detroit-and General Motors in particular-has held off. Playboy attracts twice the advertising revenue of Penthouse but finds itself schizophrenically split, trying to stay audacious enough to hold its audience while discreet enough to reassure the advertiser. The trick, says one of its worried editors, is "how to become more erotic but less raunchy." To the less inhibited Guccione, advertising is all "gravy," but he resents the fact that Kodak won't even advertise in Photo World, his picture magazine, and piously regards it as "unfortunate for Detroit...
...when Donoso starts pulling his fanciful strings, a model named Sylvia is revealed as a sapient dummy whose arms can be popped from their sockets and whose features can be wiped away. To her lover, Anselmo, Sylvia is an ideal of female submissiveness. But Sylvia has a trick up her armless sleeve. A subtle application of vanishing cream causes Anselmo's sex to disappear-just before his return home to his wife...