Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other female of her day. She remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...
...cares, as long as Steve Martin gets a chance to strut his physical grace, wrap his mouth around clever dialogue, clamber up to rooftops like a Tarzan of the Northwest, give new life to the old-fashioned nobility of the love letter, and drink wine through his nose? "Party trick," he shrugs. It's a neat trick, being Steve Martin. He's so good; his movies will get even better...
...Never Turning Anything in on Time. Alright, I did turn in a few things on time freshman year, but I learned that I work best under unnecessary pressure. The trick, of course, was to do this and not get taken down a few grades for the privilege. It got so bad that I turned in my thesis late (half an hour), not because I had to, but because I wanted to. My finest moment, however, was turning in a 30-page paper three weeks late and three days after the semester ended. Copped...
...still others, they are a simple backlash against man-tailored suits and dress-for-success drabs. Valentino waxes philosophical. "We live today in a very difficult world," he observes. "Women have to make an effort to look more happy, more smiling. It is a social step, not a fashion trick...
...sundown, and you and your mates are interesting, bookish but not stodgy, you stand a good chance of being stood to supper. The beef is from her own Charolais, the vegetables from the hothouse. The music might be an old somebody-done-somebody-wrong cowboy song. Also, the same trick works at noonday if you catch her with one or two spare biscuits in the pan. "I don't mind feeding the customers," Winifred says. "I like good conversation at my table...