Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another day, another dirty trick-or so seems to be the life story of Peninsula's Brian E. Malone '96 after an attempt at expelling Harvard Republican Club Executive Board member Chuck Truesdell '99. ("Republican Club Executive Threatened With Expulsion," News Story, March 14, 1996) And it is only fitting after his history of bigotry that Mr. Malone should take aim at Mr. Truesdell. Indeed, the stories of these two men in the political arena at Harvard could not be any more different...
...largely been on the negative, and their respective rescued Jesuses vary considerably. "There could be hopeless disagreement," notes Crossan. But if they really do undertake the project, they may come out the other end with considerably more empathy for the four (16? 32? 64?) men who attempted the same trick two millenniums ago. And there is a certain satisfaction inherent in building something...
...clock trick seems to be a common gag employed by Harvard students. Bill S. Triant '99 tried to set his roommates' alarm clocks forward an hour, but according to another roommate, F. Edward Boas '99, his plot failed...
EDITORS USUALLY TAKE THEIR CUE from the director. On Seven, for example, director David Fincher "wanted the cuts to be hard and jarring, like the TV show Cops," says Francis-Bruce. "The trick to that is not to make it look bad, but to make it look raw-edged." But they are also digging for buried treasure. On Babe, "the director often just turned on the camera and hoped to dear God he got something that matched," says Friedkin, who cut the film with Marcus D'Arcy. "There's one shot where the pig is backing down the gangplank...
...born Nathan Birnbaum on New York City's Lower East Side, one of 12 children. By his teens he was doing anything he could to break into vaudeville, from trick roller-skating to performing with a trained seal. "Whatever type of act the booking agent was looking for," he recalled, "happened to be the type of act I did." He did comedy routines with a series of partners, changing his name with each new act--because, he claimed, the booker would never have rehired him if he knew...