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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie has an almost photographic quality while the characters are obviously hand-drawn. In fact, it is only when she passes her pencil over her face and becomes similar in style to her characters that her self-portrait begins. Until then, she has taken advantage of a trick called "rotoscoping", a painstaking process which involves tracing the projection of live-action footage, frame by frame, onto paper laid over frosted glass. The result is a strange breed of fantasy and reality, true proportions with great fluidity--trained nonchalance, like an architect's handwriting. It is a common technique...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...opera singer 51 years his junior. According to the unconfirmed reports, which surfaced while Tito was on a "mission of peace to the Middle East," he had taken his fourth bride after divorcing his estranged wife Jovanka, 54. A Yugoslav government spokesman angrily dismissed the stories as a "dirty trick" perpetrated by Tito's political opponents abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Music Lovers | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...cute trick, but I think it's not a fair procedure," Locke said yesterday. But Sen. Francis D. Doris said yesterday Atkin's approach to the bill may have prevented "weeks, yes even months" of Senate debate...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Senate Approves Raising State Drinking Age to 19 | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...film lowers it to the level of a porn film. Schrader uses a classic box-office formula--a little sex and scandal combined with middle-class moral outrage--to make a cheap show with a tantalizing title that offends no one because it goes nowhere. For his next trick, Schrader has signed John Travolta to play in American Gigolo...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Harder They Come | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

Wifemistress is several shades less solemn. Its structure in fact is that of a sex farce, though its tone is more appropriate to a sentimental comedy. The disparity may arise because Director Marco Vicario (Homo Eroticus) can't quite manage the French trick of finding cuckoldry hilarious. The situation, at any rate, is satisfactorily ridiculous. Luigi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a wealthy wine merchant, an idealist and a writer of tracts on the equality of women. He is also a great philanderer, with mistresses and bastard children all around Italy. But what has that to do with idealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Diff | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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