Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative moral movement. "The country is moving politically to the right, and Ronald Reagan is a product of that phenomenon. He has been produced by it and has contributed to it." Reagan marches to his own drummer, but he also manages to be in step with the parade. "The trick," says Deputy White House Chief of Staff Dennis Thomas, "is to be far enough ahead to be a leader, but not so far that you're out of touch...
...iconoclastic Director Peter Sellars updated and transposed the locale of Handel's Orlando when he set it at the Kennedy Space Center and on Mars. This approach, however, amounts to apologizing for the libretto. A better way is to insist on fidelity to both spirit and source. The trick is to get the audience to suspend its disbelief and to care as passionately about the amours of Sappho, Princess Iphise and the god Mercury...
Betsy Spence, a 34-year old New York City resident, performed the nifty trick without even knowing...
...cunning tale opens on the discovery of a gruesome murder, with details of the victim and perpetrator withheld. It soon develops that both must be part of the triangle, but Brett defines his characters so that any combination of killer and prey seems possible. That is a neat trick, but it is also a persuasive metaphor for Brett's underlying theme: that most of mankind is tortured by dark impulses and that chance plays a major role in determining which people actually commit crimes...
...supposed to go to college. Ignorance, televised superstition, intolerance, race hatred, the discarding of the past. Almost every cause of shame is a consequence of the freedom that we celebrate above all things. Take the evil with the good, but keep the freedom; that's our motto. The trick is to spread the bounty of freedom around to correct the evil. When there is an effort to do that, one has something to celebrate. And still, can you pin it down? Sitting cross-legged on the green, sucking on your McDonald's vanilla shake, listening to the American Legion band...