Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game winner for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers, who became the last man legally to throw a spitball in a major league game; of cancer; in Clear Lake, Wis. The spitball was outlawed in 1920, but a grandfather clause allowed 17 known practitioners to use the trick pitch until they retired...
Among the younger designers, jokes tend to be about the future, but a future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne...
...Smith--who notched a first period hat trick against Dartmouth--was named the Ivy League Player of the Week...
Since radically fresh ideas surface so rarely, companies try to get all the mileage they can out of them. Coleco, which will have sold some 40 million Cabbage Patch Kids by the end of this year, has devised all sorts of ways to keep them alive. One trick is to sell them as twins ($80 to $85 a pair). Another is to dress them as world travelers, complete with international wardrobes and passports...
...first period hat trick silenced the 50 spectators who packed the frigid Arena while giving the Lady Friars (4-1-1) a lead that would neither grow--thanks to a tough Cantab defense--nor shrink...