Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getting a refund is now simple and efficient--if you know the trick. You can kill two birds with one stone: the council will no longer waste your money and you will no longer be forced to waste time making it happen...
...right note. "The concerns expressed by the Christian Coalition are no different from those I've heard from other Americans," he told TIME. "The question for us as Republicans is how we can give voice to those concerns without coming across as intolerant or angry or threatening." Indeed, the trick to winning the G.O.P. nomination is to get at least the grudging approval of conservative Christians while drawing support from the party's other two important bases, neither of which cares much about the main religious-right issues. One consists of neo-Reaganite economic conservatives more concerned with tax cuts...
Designer Geoffrey Beene, who scrupulously avoids ephemera, says, "I wouldn't make fun of women by dressing them as children. It's a trick that has been used by streetwalkers in Paris for years." That does not seem to bother other rulers of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld likes the style, though he thinks it looks best on women with "runway bodies...
...impulsively and unpredictably." The examiner asked him to complete the sentence "I am very . . ." "Sick," Yummy replied. The examiner saw a child full of self- hate, lonely, illiterate, wary. When he heard a walkie-talkie down the hall, he jumped from his seat, afraid of police. "You tryin' to trick me," he accused the examiner. There was not much doubt about how he came to be that way -- only about whether anyone or anything could save...
Except, of course, that Stone doesn't let you stand back. NBK plunders every visual trick of avant-garde and mainstream cinema -- morphing, back projection, slow motion, animation and pixillation on five kinds of film stock -- and, for two delirious hours, pushes them in your face like a Cagney grapefruit. The actors go hyper-hyper, the camera is ever on the bias, the garish colors converge and collide, and you're caught in this Excedrin vision of America in heat. The ride is fun too, daredevil fun of the sort that only Stone seems willing to provide in this timid...