Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Luckily, the weak sections never run on too long. Every time The In-Laws starts to stumble into oblivion, Peter Falk cocks his head, stares the manic Alan Arkin in the eye, and launches into an earnest if bizarre discourse about the travails of being a CIA agent. "The trick [of my job] is not to get killed," confides Falk, sotto voce. "That's the key to the benefit program...
...self-indulgent pathos. Fate is stern; it demands a hero. Self-pity is soft; it only asks for a man to look in a mirror and recognize a victim. All the "pity poor little me" folk, all the partisans of the "life is a dirty trick" philosophy, which is pervasive in our society, have proclaimed Beckett a genius. He is not a genius, but his considerable gifts, which he has harvested with great integrity, happen to coincide with the scary, fretful temper of the times...
...Harvard women's soccer team caps a magnificent season by toppling Brown, 3-0, to capture the Ivy League championship. Julie Brynteson scores the hat trick and garners the tournament's Most Valuable Player honors...
...trick: they measured urine levels of MHPG, a breakdown product of a brain chemical...
...Walter Dean Burnham, a political scientist at M.I.T.: "Most of us pretty much take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits who blame the American people for doing what their leaders and their corporate giants...