Word: trickyness
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In literature as in life, a fine line often separates the ambitious from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans...
Parking in the streets can be tricky because the parking spaces are unreliable--and anyway, it's against College rules. And for those who do try their luck with the streets, street cleaning can lead to frequent tickets--or worse.
Reading the minds of the nine Supreme Court Justices is always a tricky business, even if you get to hear their voices. But first impressions from the Court's 90 minutes say this thing - guess what? - is gonna be close. And as long as the Justices stick to the narrow...
Sometimes, the randomly changing attributes overlapped--both patches turning red at the same instant for example--which made following along a little tricky. But 90 percent of the time, subjects could identify which patch was which at the end of the experiment.
Gore certainly needed to turn the tables somehow. Tuesday saw a rash of newly released polls declaring that in the wake of Sunday's certification, a growing majority of Americans thought Bush was president-elect and Gore should concede. (How many just want somebody to concede was tricky to separate...