Word: trickyness
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A reasoned summation was offered by Columnist Max Lerner. "Many will view the whole Honolulu venture as a tricky Johnsonian gimmick to give the outward semblance of activity when there is no substance of progress in the war," he wrote. "But it would be serious to underestimate the President or...
The idea first occurred to Navy Pilot James R. Conrey in 1960, while he was jockeying his plane through a tricky crosswind landing at Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and...
The orchestra performed it pretty well, however. The strings had good tone and intonation. The horns are improving. And a number of tricky entrances were handled accurately in the evening, though not in the afternoon, performances. Still, the work isn't exciting, and there wasn't much the orchestra could...
PETULA CLARK: THE WORLD'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL HITS (Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky...
However, nearly everything about Cincinnati Kid is reminiscent of The Hustler. Director Jewison can put his cards on the table, let his camera cut suspensefully to the players' intent faces, but a pool shark sinking a tricky shot into a side pocket undoubtedly offers more range. Kid also has...