Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trick is to get a good lottery number. And maybe to have fate on your side...
...well, the first film to accomplish the hat trick at the Cannes festival (best picture, best director and best actor), and we all understand, don't we, that when it comes to our own movies, the French always know what's best for -- and by -- us American primitives...
...plays as much as he can. His latest game: photographing women wearing nothing but multicolored patterns of light. His ideas continue to bubble forth like an uncontrolled chemical reaction. He believes the AIDS virus alone cannot account for the epidemic. He wants to create a computer program that will trick the senses into believing they've landed in an amusement park as real as Disneyland. "Much of what Kary says is nonsense," says a friend. But sometimes what he says is so stunning that it may earn him a Nobel Prize...
Brady is looking at his breakthrough year. He wrote two songs on Raitt's brand new Luck of the Draw, including the title track; and she returns the favor by singing lead and background on the title track from Brady's own Trick or Treat (Fontana/Mercury), which may well be the prize work in this very fine bunch. Brady's solo career as a songwriter began more than a decade ago; before that he had been known as a reinterpreter of traditional Irish music. After his fourth solo record, in 1988, followed the usual pattern -- critical accolades, cult status, stubbornly...
...Awadi understands that stability is unlikely if hereditary rulers resist legitimate pressures for change. "The trick now is not so difficult," he says. "We must make the regime more responsive and understanding, goals that would certainly be helped by increasing the voter rolls." And for whom would the newly enfranchised be most likely to vote? "Well," says al-Awadi, smiling, "I am not the most astute of politicians, but it would seem to me that those granted a certain right might well feel a strong preference for whoever is seen as having given it to them...