Word: tricking
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Jassel's predicament makes A Landing on the Sun both humorous and sad, and thus the novel will neither surprise nor disappoint readers familiar with Frayn's most recent work, The Trick of It. Like most of his plays, novels, and screenplays, A Lnading on the Sun is a comic work of light, unassuming wit, tempered with the author's usual quiet sense of the prosaic tragedy of life. Frayn's greatest strength rests in his talent at reconciling humor and sadness, and he achieves this rapprochement in the book with gentle facility...
Pomichter has been effective as both a playmaker (18 of his 24 points are assists) and a scorer, a fact highlighted by his hat-trick in a recent 8-2 trouncing of Brown...
Clinton is as superstitious as most politicians, but he has already considered the possibility of an early lock on the Democratic nomination. "The trick would be to keep the campaign expanding when I've won mathematically," he says. "The tendency is to close down and exclude those whose support you'll need in the fall," primarily because the original members of a winning candidate's team never want to share power. "You've got to guard against that," says Clinton, "but it's manageable." The downside? "If you win quickly, you've probably not been sufficiently tested, and then...
When Steinem, now 57, pours a second cup of coffee and writes like she talks, there is no one more fascinating. The only comparable figure in public life is Ralph Nader, and he doesn't manage the trick of combining her monastic commitment with unapologetic glamour that gets her waved past the velvet ropes at clubs on both coasts. Strangers come up to her on the street and tell her, "You changed my life," and cleaning women at the airport find a place for her to take...
...gaudier miracles are entertaining. A few of them may be authentic by Vatican standards. But a miracle without purpose is mostly a trick. Far from tourist trap and snake farm, there is the Ur-miracle from which all miracles derive. It is useful, simple, transforming and persuasive. It cannot be faked. It is love...