Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Falcone, with four goals on the night including three in the third period, and Olson, with a nifty hat trick that included his third shorthanded tight-rope walk of the season, blasted the Crimson icemen past the Lauries, for the Crimson's second straight...
...only do creative people challenge basic assumptions, they discern previously unseen patterns. This, according to biochemist Calvin, is one of the most important abilities of the scientist. Gregor Mendel, cross-breeding peas in a monastery, noticed a pattern and extended the understanding of heredity. "It's no trick at all," Calvin notes, "to get the right answer when you have all the data. The real creative trick is to get the right answer when you have only half the data, and half of that is wrong...
...Crimson came away embarassed, not impressed. And so the icemen did not resort to gimmicks, trick strategies, computer-analyzed line match-ups. They just went out, skated hard, forechecked, backchecked, and made the most of their chances. And they blew the Huskies away...
...core of every magic trick is a lie. When the silk has changed its color, when the chosen card has appeared, when the billiard balls have multiplied, rest assured that some lie has been told. The silk, the card, the balls--they do not tell the lie. The lie is not in the performance, but in the observation...
...thought Brooke Shields looked just nifty in her Calvins? Wrong - according to Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell. The 15-year-old sex symbol's grownup getups earned her first place on Blackwell's annual list of worst-dressed women. "She looks like a Halloween trick without the treat," he sniffs. "Her mother should be totally condemned for this...