Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of these sequences is as awesome as the trouble they caused, especially in the fussy business of seamlessly melding ape and human footage-essentially by employing sophisticated double-exposure techniques. This marrying of trick and conventional photography is still going on, but the available samples indicate that the illusions work-wondrous conjurer's tricks performed on a brobdingnagian scale...
...game had featured a raspy recording of the national anthem and a hat trick by Bert Bowery, one of three starting Minutemen players who had weathered the entire season. But neither goals nor patriotism helped Boston, which went on to lose its tenth straight in overtime, after its lead vanished with three minutes remaining...
James Earl Carter III, 26, known as "Chip," was out in front of the main gate at the Bell Helicopter plant in Hurst, Texas, grinning at the workers and shaking hands, being careful to squeeze a mite harder than the other person-an old pol's trick to ease the wear and tear on himself. "Hi, Chip," one worker nodded pleasantly. "I heard you was gonna be here." Replied Carter: "We sure do need your help in November." Chip has been home only six times for brief visits during the past year, but, unlike his father, he still finds...
After the goal, the only question left was whether or not Mlezcko would get a hat trick. She eventually did, off a pass with ten minutes left in the contest...
...Democratic cloakroom just off the Senate floor, Hubert Humphrey cracked, "Segretti did it. It had to be one of the dirty-trick guys.'' Los Angeles Times Cartoonist Paul Conrad lost not a second in sketching a lascivious Jimmy Carter fantasizing over the Statue of Liberty-undraped. A Californian just back from a trip winked at his wife and announced: "I've got that Jimmy Carter feeling...