Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because if your brain is just a machine, it's a machine that can do one trick that computers have no hope of doing. A trick that is intrinsic to the machinery, that can't be duplicated onto some other machine, stored on a disc, reworked by smart programmers or appropriated by Microsoft. Because of the stuff it is made of, or the way its parts are arranged, the brain is a machine that is capable of creating an "I." Brains can summon mental worlds into being, and computers...
David Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful...
...with one another doesn't matter all that much if they don't also connect with their audience. McNally wrote Frankie and Johnny early in his career, before Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion! made him a latter-day B-way comic bard. Here, he plays the beginner's trick of substituting theme or plot with sparkling layers of verbal gift wrap...
...Barry Hillenbrand. "After being elected last week, Blair seems willing to try new initiatives and arrangements which may bridge the impasse and get the parties talking. The huge majority Labour has will also help him because he does not have to worry completely about what the Unionists say. The trick is Blair still has to get the Unionists and everyone else to the table. A key issue to this is to arrange an IRA cease fire, but to some extent, that's out of his control...
...agreeable--eating foods rich in fat and sugar, for instance--have backfired in modern society. Just as a surfeit of food and a dearth of exercise have conspired to turn heart disease and diabetes into major health problems, so the easy availability of addictive chemicals has played a devious trick. Addicts do not crave heroin or cocaine or alcohol or nicotine per se but want the rush of dopamine that these drugs produce...