Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be the Tom Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...
Scores of professors and academics has not been able to pull the trick...
...shorthand phrases, Hart has been vulnerable to caricature as the candidate who merely espouses the idea of new ideas. In fact, he bristles with notions about how Government should be run. Some sound sensible and promising, some trendy and impractical. Cynics say that Hart simply rediscovered an old marketing trick. "New faces, New Frontier, New Deal, new horizons," chants Illinois' Democratic state chairman, Calvin Sutker. "It's always good to say something...
...WEST is solid Reagan country, the bedrock of his electoral victory four years ago. In 1980, Reagan won more than a hundred electoral votes by carrying every state: in the West except Hawaii. He looks likely to repeat this trick in 1984 and win states like Arizona, Oregon, Wyoming, and the big prize, California (45 electoral votes), against almost any Democratic candidate--especially Mondale. The only Democrat right now who could give him a lot of trouble is Cranston, but the California senator is struggling right now in the East and shows little sign of being able to last even...
...Harvard men's hockey team can perform an ECAC magic trick tonight and turn a 10-9-2 2 record into a home ice advantage in the quarterfinal of this weekend's conference tournament...