Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amusements in the early years. "We would shut off the water in 1705 [Sacramento street, the other co-op house] around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. We would decorate the house for Halloween with skeletons, because this was a residential neighborhood then and kids would come to trick-or-treat here...
...credibility faced its biggest challenge. The trick was to avoid doing a Jerry Lewis-like routine of a man impersonating a burbling brat. Hanks wanted his twelve-year-old to be one who just happens to look 20 years older than the other kids on the block. "The hardest part -- and also the appeal -- of the role was to strip myself of all the adult layers," he says. "It was to regain the kid's sense of play. I dug up memories -- or scars -- of myself in junior high school...
...bucks at stake, skateboarding remains a pretty straight-ahead endeavor. It has its own magazines (Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding are the most successful), its own lingo, its own half-mystical lore and its own concepts of < cool. No thrasher excessively applauds another for an especially rad move. Miss a trick, and another skater will say, with offhand censure, "That was totally lame." But get it right, and the same comment or a close variation ("You're such a dweeb for making that") will be offered, but delivered this time with an admiring irony. "Basically, it's a fun thing," smiles...
Tradition is honored, of course. There are first-rate aerialists, teeterboard balancers, trick bicyclists and lots of clowns. But what the gifted Canadians are presenting is less a conventional succession of circus acts -- there are, for example, no animals -- than a wondrous flow of fantasies, produced with all the drive and coherence of a Broadway musical...
That's the magic trick British Author William Boyd has managed in his fourth novel. He tells the life story of a rather prickly film director of genius, one John James Todd, and in doing so describes the making of Todd's silent masterpiece so clearly and vividly that the reader may feel he has seen the nonexistent epic. Titled The Confessions: Part I, it is the first film in a projected trilogy that is to be the realization of Todd's dreams. Imprisoned in Germany during World War I, he read Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, and it took...