Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encore, Millar recorded a hat trick in Harvard's 6-0 pounding of Union the following evening, just his sixth collegiate game...
...White House, political aides to the President are not sweating about who will win the compassion competition. ("Compassion is us," could be the White House's slogan.) They and other Democrats see conservative compassion as a kind of Republican confidence trick, allowing them to grind the faces of the poor while wearing a self-righteous smile. But the idea of compassion is genuine and will not melt away. Luntz avows that voters "want you to feel for them." So, advice to all Republican candidates from a consultant in compassion: "Think needy, not greedy...
...often does The Maids trick the audience that, even when it is over, it's difficult to say just what has happened. The real point is not to narrate the murder--as in the recent film Sister My Sister, another treatment of the same incident--but to create the atmosphere of insanity; and this requires much better acting than the Pool Theater production could boast. Rutkowski could communicate Claire's sense of superiority only through a sullen, sneering tone; she seemed irritable but not haughty...
...writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since, on the evidence of the film, no one heard Kane's dying word, so no one could search for its meaning...
...that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing while you remain stony, you call it manipulative. Manipulative is just the word we use when we have caught artists at the parlor trick of making...