单词 | sleight of hand |
例句 | But what seem to be supernatural events are really sleight of hand. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no idea when he took it off his finger, a neat bit of sleight of hand that I had no idea he could do, no less while inebriated. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He’d never lost his love for sleight of hand, and he graduated from palming coins to cards, cups, wallets, and watches. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Satan, in a classic rhetorical sleight of hand, doesn’t directly ask the question his speech hopes to answer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z This magician’s sleight of hand did not go unnoticed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He puts the lighter back in his pocket; he must assume all eyes are trying to watch for any sleight of hand. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They watched his dealing more closely, mistaking his clumsiness for a cardsharp’s sleight of hand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I watched as he demonstrated tricks and sleights of hand he learned from Yorick, but I never dared to speak to him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Does a movement cause us to look away from a sleight of hand at just the right second? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Hazel passed a diamond between her fingers in a sleight of hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I can learn to hustle, learn some sleight of hand of my own. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For sleight of hand, she realized, so that he can keep contact with coins or cards or finesse the workings of a lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The development is a narrative sleight of hand, reverse engineered to upend the viewer’s existing impressions and raise new questions about responsibility, trauma and blame. ‘What Comes Around’ Review: A Triangle of Power Dynamics 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Why, then, call this a “cunning sleight of hand”? Especially when, as we learn one paragraph later, it nearly drew a false confession from this man? Review: Deep in a Homicide Unit, Details, but No Big Picture 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z And yet, with this homespun treasure, Chomet proves there is still a place for old-school sleight of hand; for something rare and exotic, majestic and melancholy. Edinburgh film festival review: The Illusionist 2010-06-17T08:41:00Z Breaking her routine as well, the sleight of hand clears space for her voice to burst, frankly and scathingly, through her own inhibitions as well as through the very fabric of Hong’s film. Standouts from the New York Film Festival 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Turned around in 28 days with every member of the cast and crew under self-isolation, Corona Zombies is actually the result of a deft sleight of hand. Corona Zombies: the terrible movie we might just need right now 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z In addition to the obvious braggadocio of the form, there is a sleight of hand involved in the composition. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The historian Garry Wills has called Lincoln’s elevation of the Declaration at Gettysburg “one of the most daring acts of open-air sleight of hand ever witnessed by the unsuspecting.” Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Jake, as a future astronomer, is fascinated by Einstein's Constant, "a mathematical sleight of hand" that may have bearing on the rate at which galaxies are accelerating "beyond the horizon of observation." 'The Constant Heart': Beware the devotion of a complicated woman 2012-09-19T21:10:09Z The show was, in other words, classic fashion sleight of hand: an accomplished and realistic collection dressed up in the septum rings of the revolution. From Givenchy to Stella McCartney: Rebelling Against the Tyranny of the New 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Even as the characters openly discuss the art of misdirection and sleight of hand, we ourselves are being led down the garden path by Mamet. Your next box set: The Unit 2012-07-05T14:30:01Z The scene works well, though – and it's a reasonable cinematic sleight of hand. Nowhere Boy is everywhere faithful to John Lennon's teenage years 2012-10-11T09:02:08Z The other is a more bookish kind of escape, and culminates in a moment of transcendence achieved mostly by literary style and authorial sleight of hand. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z There was no sleight of hand, no hint of shenanigans. The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z There’s a relatively edgy sleight of hand with the movie’s handling of Abby’s pro-choice rhetoric: it presents it as convincing and sincere. The Messiness of Reproduction and the Dishonesty of Anti-Abortion Propaganda 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z A bass clarinet's startling emergence from a Stravinskyan orchestral thicket was yet another of her sonic sleights of hand. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Mintz couples sumptuous long takes with torrid raw emotion, and like the best debauched kids-gone-wild dramas — “Thirteen” comes to mind — the project is a sleight of hand, teasing bliss before drowning you in dread. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Johnson’s own sleight of hand is estimable, even if his effort to add politics into the crowded mix rings hollow. ‘Knives Out’ Review: Murder Most Clever 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The otherwise naturalistic script offers nifty theatrical sleight of hand when a child services employee, also played by Mr. Everidge, stops by. Theater Review: ‘Falling,’ at Minetta Lane, Looks at Autism’s Role in a Family 2012-10-16T21:58:05Z This is a sleight of hand that would be sloppy if it wasn't so considered. Publishers should be proud of their legacy 2012-05-25T09:54:09Z The magician Richard Turner is dedicated to wowing audiences with sleight of hand. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ and ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Thus, a semantic sleight of hand was necessary, he said: “We developed this concept of ‘not so tall.’ ‘Not So Tall’ Guys Finally Get Their Own Store 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z But he noted that Mr. Berglas is not renowned for dazzling sleight of hand. The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z At what other restaurant could such a sleight of hand be achieved? Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Much of Nels Cline’s playing is about sleight of hand and anti-gravity: This guitarist uses effects and delay to envelop you, lift you up, upset your sense of time. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Is Ready to Rumble, and 11 More New Songs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The ordered allure of “The Handmaiden” is something of a sleight of hand. “The Handmaiden” and the Freedom Women Find Only with One Another 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Unlike a magician, Robert Irwin doesn’t try to hide his sleight of hand. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z His works have always managed that sleight of hand. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z “There’s so much sleight of hand and so many illusions happening onstage to trick an audience that you’re being brave.” The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s a neat sleight of hand: Muhly scores the instruments in roughly the same range and gives the orchestra strong, independent lines, creating the sense of an encroaching threat. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z This sleight of hand begs for us to read aloud, loudly and confidently, and we do, becoming less reader and more participant in a whimsical call-and-response. Your Kids Need a Laugh? Try the Short, Quirky Poems in This Book 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Vegan cooking is an exercise in sleight of hand, in hoodwinking your senses in ways that bewilder carnivores like myself. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But fear not: you’re still on recognizably traditional Greek turf, and the kitchen demonstrates as much concern for impeccable ingredients as for culinary sleight of hand. Choice Tables: How to Eat Well in Athens 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z Bloodying up an actor onstage always requires some sort of sleight of hand — the precise timing of a mimed blow, a shout and the release of a hidden blood bag. For the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s props director, one blood is not like another 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z My father's specialty in magic is sleight of hand. Kids' books: Remembering Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman 2010-04-02T11:24:00Z And then, once the story’s larger framework is in place, he executes the subtle sleight of hand that makes each of his books so much more than the sum of its parts. Books of The Times: Cold-Case Trial: Two Opposites on Same Side, Facing Down a Killer 2010-10-06T22:53:00Z But de Hory was original and imaginative in what he did through storytelling and sleight of hand, which exploited a specific moment in art history. The Artist Beneath the Art Forger 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z But the homunculus never materialised – it was an apparition, more insubstantial than the ectoplasm that appeared by sleight of hand in spiritualist seances. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z But maybe this, too, is a perfectionist sleight of hand, to present persistent self-criticism as casual self-deprecation. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Though cinematic sleight of hand was deployed — no humans were maimed during the making of this film — Mr. DiCaprio really is tossed around like a trout in the scene. About That Bear: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Discusses Making ‘The Revenant’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Instead, it is more judicious to puncture its bombastic façade using the weapons of humour, evasion and other similar sleights of hand. The N-Word: a volcano kept active by the flickering embers of racism 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z We often talk of the "material" that composers use, which is usually a metaphorical sleight of hand that tries to turn a bunch of notes into so much clay. A guide to Rebecca Saunders' music 2012-11-05T15:47:54Z There may also be a sleight of hand with time: Are the glasses nearest us the oldest, while the ones in distance are more of our moment? Perspective | Wayne Thiebaud’s artistic eye was so much keener than pop art confections 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z For its visual sleight of hand, the 3-D technology being deployed at the Met will also interact with the movement of the set. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z “Perfume,” he muses, “is fooling you into smelling stuff that is not there. It’s very much sleight of hand.” Does this train station smell like ... grapefruit? How the air around us suddenly became so fragrant. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Through manipulation, sleight of hand and incentives, the goal was achieved. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z Even up close, it was impossible to tell whether it was all sleight of hand or real hocus-pocus. Leaf-peeping and spooky vibes make Estes Park, Colo., a dynamic fall destination 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z While it nominally describes the author’s efforts to improve his sleight of hand and regain his self-respect, “Fooling Houdini” is more than a series of anecdotes. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z Moreover, those universal themes are a sleight of hand. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z The other great thing about Floor Is Lava is a sleight of hand. Netflix's Floor Is Lava: the show to save the summer? 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Some who have worked with Trump over the years, and been involved in his public remarks and writings, say the best way to manage him is through a bit of sleight of hand. The perilous high-wire act of writing speeches for Donald Trump 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet this sort of exercise was no more than sleight of hand. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Yet in every Devecchi design there is magic, an aesthetic sleight of hand that appears effortless and charming, belying a creative, concept-oriented imagination. Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The Seven Deadly Sins are conjured with a little sleight of hand and the Guardian; a projected image of Helen of Troy comes with a ukulele version of That Old Black Magic. Dr Faustus 2010-06-21T20:16:00Z It was an impressive sleight of hand, and she wasn’t the only speaker on Tuesday night to try it. Perspective | Trying to disgust you is the only move the Republican convention’s antiabortion speakers have left 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z It was one of many ways Mr. Bender and his team used audio to create a sleight of hand for the audience. | Below the Line: The Sounds of 'Drive' 2012-02-22T18:57:43Z The sleight of hand with which I convert a bottle of milk into a round of cheese never fails to thrill me. How to make the cheese that squeaks 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z This sense of spaciousness is surely due to Mr. Garcia’s designing sleight of hand, as seen in the bathroom and high ceilings. Check In: Hotel Review: NoMad Hotel in New York City 2013-08-07T16:24:53Z Lou further obscures Jean’s motives with some clever, metafictional sleight of hand: Often, the film segues deceptively between onstage rehearsals of Tan’s play and Jean’s offstage encounters. ‘Saturday Fiction’ Review: Theater of History 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is also a magician who uses rhetorical evasion, doublespeak and sleight of hand to work his public and the news media. Donald Trump must go full Wrestlemania: Winning in New Hampshire means going more ridiculous, more over the top 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But the highlight of the evening, according to Mark Furstenberg, the Washington baker and a pal of Richard’s, was when the culinary luminaries gathered around their host to watch him demonstrate his sleights of hand. Chef Michel Richard was happy in the kitchen. And you could taste it. 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Like a lot of reality TV, the show relies on a bit of sleight of hand. What Happens After ‘Restaurant: Impossible’ Leaves Town 2012-07-10T21:00:58Z But he saw a lot of sleight of hand as well; for instance the series made frequent use of an actor who bore a resemblance to Winston Churchill. Time Marches ... Backward! 2010-09-02T17:53:00Z From an early age I’d stand in front of a mirror for hours practising my sleight of hand. Dick Van Dyke: 'Someone should have told me to work on my Cockney accent' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet with her carefully-crafted songs, she sought to turn the Moore into a back porch in Appalachia, a sleight of hand she achieved. Gillian Welch ? simple, spare, stunning 2011-07-14T21:09:04Z Watching this cinematic sleight of hand is unquestionably an intense, perversely enjoyable cinematic experience. 2010-01-29T07:06:00Z “You know the real magic here on some malevolent sleight of hand is I have also turned into you.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Set in the late 1950s, the story opens on an unnamed French magician who is struggling to keep audiences interested in his old-fashioned sleights of hand. | 'The Illusionist': Conjuring a Magical Relationship 2010-12-23T22:41:33Z At one point a group of three faced a group of two, and as they passed each other, one dancer switched allegiances: choreographic sleight of hand. Dance Review: Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-03T20:21:05Z "If this acting thing doesn't work out, I might try to pursue of career in sleight of hand." Patti LuPone on cellphone abusers: 'Arrogance and defiance' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z And yet, quietly, Mr. Brown accomplishes a kind of magical sleight of hand. Ronald K. Brown Choreographs a Love Letter to Alvin Ailey 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Faux crawfish, ersatz shrimp: They’re less a matter of alchemy and transfiguration than sleight of hand in a circle of sawdust. At Seasoned Vegan, Soul Food That Never Harmed a Soul 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But with expert sleight of hand, he is able to find artistic benefits as well. Critic?s Notebook: Ushering City Opera Into a New Era 2011-08-12T22:27:56Z The history of movies is also a history of filmmakers engaging with their cinematic influences through sleights of hand, cribbed camera moves, copied shots, mirrored gestures. Review: ‘Synchronicity’ Plays With Time and Love 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He also persuades by asserting his physical strength and even employs sleight of hand, cheating to win a Fourth of July tug of war. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead, I recall a flickering series of moments I’ve been unable to shake: killing jokes and stolen kisses and fleeting glimpses; scenes and ideas and sleights of hand. Reading Is About the Lines That Leap Off the Pages 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Those transformations, accomplished with sleights of hand worthy of a master magician, are probably the most entertaining and satisfying aspects of “The Audience.” Review: ‘The Audience,’ With Helen Mirren, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Here, though, is another case where close attention to Flaherty’s editing reveals his sleights of hand. Does It Matter if a Documentary Is Staged? These Two Films Hold Answers 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In one statement, Scalia unwittingly swept away over 200 years of obfuscation and sleight of hand. Surely it's time American women's equality was added to the constitution 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s nighttime now, and the winding roads and staggered hillsides perform sleights of hand. California will never stop burning 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The conclusion might be correct, but it’s cheapened by Dann’s sleights of hand. Thoreau the Weird: A New Interpretation of His Philosophy 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Davis, of Mannheim Steamroller, suggested that the song has a dramatic and mystical quality that demands a certain sleight of hand from an arranger. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Reading down charts for some of Mr. Iyer’s older pieces, it’s easy to see how “Configurations,” from his 2001 album “Panoptic Modes,” employs the same tempo-modulating sleight of hand found on parts of “Accelerando.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Accelerando? by the Vijay Iyer Trio 2012-03-14T22:16:29Z The group’s members — Joshua Redman on tenor and soprano saxophones; Aaron Parks on piano, organ and keyboards; Matt Penman on bass; and Eric Harland on drums — share the responsibility for that sleight of hand. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z Ostensibly recounted with nothing but clinical curiosity, the transgressive patient’s evasions, provocations and sleights of hand are in this way craftily enacted by the novel itself. The Patient Is Obsessed With Sex. But How Reliable Is Her Therapist? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Mitchell’s architectural sleights of hand are buttressed by Wells and Fox’s vibrant materials, finishes, and furnishings. A Historic Boston Townhouse Gets A Glam Update 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The movie's raison d'etre, its many highflying, wildly violent, often digitally enhanced kung fu fighting sequences, are edited with so much sleight of hand they may evoke more eye rolls than gasps. '14 Blades' cuts right into martial arts action 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The really distinctive feature of the show, though, is the sleight of hand he and Graham employ to keep open the question of the Ingrams’ guilt. Review: ‘Quiz’ Has a Big Question but No Final Answer 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Apart from his business partner, magician Michael Weber, whom he also accounts a kind of late-life mentor, younger magicians are invisible, "this ongoing continuum of sleight of hand" notwithstanding. TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z That's because Adès performs one of the greatest sleights of hand a composer is capable of. A guide to Thomas Adès's music 2012-10-01T15:19:00Z And this genre trades on a bad faith sleight of hand that displaces the reality that the average Trump voter is a college-educated white individual of some means, not a “hillbilly.” Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Crucially, the book performs a sleight of hand in relation to all these tales. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z With some meteorological sleight of hand, visitors wandering throughout the gallery of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum actually control the stormy weather with each footstep. Rain Room at LACMA is an indoor storm where the water is recycled and you won't get wet 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z In an especially remarkable musical sleight of hand, Christie found magic in minor French works with his Les Arts Florissants ensemble at Disney Hall. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z When 24 works, it’s thanks to simple sleight of hand. No more 24! Why another reboot of the ailing thriller is a waste of time 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Creating another situation like this will require some narrative sleight of hand, and probably a little reverse engineering, but I’d rather watch that than another half-hearted threesome scene. Let's make House of Cards great again 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Here, again, the linkage to the past is a sleight of hand. Pop’s Material Girls, Rich With Influence 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z That’s not a bad description of this stylish narrator, too, who keeps the story sliding along so quickly that you’ll barely notice his sleight of hand. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z But at a performance last month of his one-man show, “In & Of Itself,” he may not have been the only one engaged in some sleight of hand. Hat. Rabbit. Spy Cam? Claims of Skulduggery at a Hot Magic Show 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Throughout the show, Mr. Leibowitz plays sleight of hand with art, history and identity, suggesting that you use whatever materials are at hand, from self-deprecation to cheap ceramics. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z For all of Orlando's sleight of hand — on stage and off — he truly falls for Ewa. Intensely moving 'Immigrant' leaves viewers unsettled 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s preposterous, of course, that a fetus should be thinking such earthshaking thoughts, but Mr. McEwan writes here with such assurance and élan that the reader never for a moment questions his sleight of hand. Review: ‘Nutshell,’ a Tale Told by a Baby-to-Be (or Not-to-Be) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Jones tired of performing miracles, though, and knew his ambitions could never be sustained by sleight of hand. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z This strategy requires an impressive sleight of hand; in many respects the interests of the 1 percent and the 99 percent differ markedly. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z And it is fitting that this comedy, in which the dark art of magic is often evoked to explain people’s peculiarities, should charm us, in the final moments, with some deft theatrical sleight of hand. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z The aggressive foreshortening in many of the pictures is amplified by compositional sleights of hand. Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy 2010-09-02T22:45:00Z At some level, we are all growing familiar with this kind of sleight of hand. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “They tried using sleight of hand to enlist prejudiced voters in an essentially progressive cause.” The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Her stories might be short but that is sleight of hand; they demand focus. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But they’re all in on the joke, the fakery, the sleight of hand. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Most authors would be giving themselves well-deserved back pats over such sleight of hand. ‘The Happiest People in the World,’ Brock Clarke’s New Novel 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z This sleight of hand, which is all too common in the travel business, is now a full-fledged epidemic in the car-rental industry. How to avoid overpaying for your rental car 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z This section comes to feel less like magic than like sleight of hand, a way to fill the gap between Leo’s escape from Germany and Josef’s long-awaited entrance. A Psychedelic Epic That Wants to Consume the World 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The whole Crystal Academy admissions process depends on such sleight of hand. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to overstate just how unnerving David Chase’s sleight of hand was in 2007. Best of Salon: Why “The Sopranos” final scene haunts us still 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Television, for all its sleight of hand and visual, cross-cultural conjuring remains a valuable means of reinforcing simple wonder in our world while evoking respect for its inhabitants. First Footprints, Broadchurch – TV review 2013-07-14T22:04:43Z Give me a break if it was $19 I could accept it , but not this sleight of hand! 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Christie was, of course, unrivaled in the art of narrative sleight of hand. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z For others — especially those who say Yglesias punches left — his wisdom amounts to sleight of hand. The boring journey of Matt Yglesias 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The rhetoric of soul and heart is a sleight of hand to distract from the boring truth that tech companies are, of course, for-profit corporations. Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Better Act Nice 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Such sleight of hand can make even the most implausible causes stick. Polarized Punks 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Even the casting of auxiliary characters reflects a careful sleight of hand. Step 1 to start loving ‘The Affair’: Admit there’s no such thing as truth 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Medical providers defraud Medicare; bankers perform sleights of hand with the markets and destroy the commonweal. Review: Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ Examines Disbanded Brothers Returning to a Divided Country 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z There were big dangling earrings and upper-arm bands and toe rings; knotted rope belts and chunky clogs; a whole lot of bags and a bit of sleight of hand. Offline and On Point at Dries Van Noten 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Through a slick sleight of hand, one his grandfather would appreciate, Shorto shifts his mark about halfway through his story. Russell Shorto’s Grandpa Was a ‘Smalltime’ Mobster 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z One proof of Elizabeth Strout’s greatness is the sleight of hand with which she injects sneaky subterranean power into seemingly transparent prose. Elizabeth Strout Gets Meta in Her New Novel About Marriage 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z But part of the film’s sleight of hand is luring us into sympathy for a child who is eventually transformed into a faceless demon. ‘The Ring’ Told Us in 2002 That the Medium Is the Monster 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The arrival of Issue 600 is a bit of comic-book sleight of hand, or, as DC calls it, a return to historical numbering. Wonder Woman, 69, Has Style and Mythos Makeover 2010-06-29T22:58:00Z No sleight of hand; the separate elements of Wallinger's works are always exposed, one feels, as a matter of principle. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z The chitchat at the castle’s bar, however, was less focused on sleight of hand and more on contemporary art fairs. The $2,500 culture club: Global art party rolls into the Magic Castle 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But it’s possible to care too much for order, cool and elegance, to overpraise the magician’s sleight of hand and miss the trick itself. Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Watch closely, the book says, and if you’re very attentive, you’ll find the ugly truth hidden beneath layers of pleasant obfuscation and textual sleight of hand. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z That most people didn’t notice was a testament to the success of the Agnès b. sleight of hand. Critical Shopper: A Bid to Recapture the Sleight of Hand 2011-04-20T18:14:35Z His perception of the world is as giddy as his financial sleight of hand. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z There are lots of cinematic chases, from a complex one through a junkyard to another involving cars and drones, the drop-off of a suitcase and lots of sleight of hand. Joe Ide Adds More Breathless Action to the Mix in ‘Wrecked’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The movement did not end so much as — in a sleight of hand — evaporate into nothing. Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z I believe that only those who write detective stories themselves can really appreciate his marvellous sleight of hand. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z She also remains a kind of one woman Penn and Teller, constantly calling our attention to her process and somehow making that a revelatory tactic a trademark sleight of hand. With "Douglas," Hannah Gadsby is a comedy pioneer with her whimsical, meticulous show about autism 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z But this sleight of hand doesn’t matter if it gets people through the door. Great News is the best show on Netflix. Why was it cut down in its prime? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z However, if there's one performer who can persuade us to embrace the uncomplicated pleasures of illusion and sleight of hand then it's Pete Firman. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-26T06:00:13Z Good farmers’ markets are such a boon to our communities that it would be a shame to see their minimal profitability chiseled away by sleight of hand. Social Q?s: Faraway Weddings May Be Too Much Bother 2012-02-23T22:37:11Z And like her colorful characters, she's not dealing in illusions and sleight of hand. 'The Night Circus': unwilling magicians locked in a duel 2011-09-16T20:13:05Z On the one hand, this offers a neat sleight of hand, the faithless husband recasting his experience through the filter of a faithless wife. Clancy Martin's new novel is not about 'Bad Sex' but the bad stuff sex can make us do 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Later, in his office, he performs some bookkeeping sleight of hand to account for the windfall, and then he puts it to use. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Don't Worry Saul, It's All Good, Man 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Despite the contrivances and narrative sleights of hand, there’s a tragic logic at play in the films’ belated twists, one that dovetails with the real-life revelations of #MeToo. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Having dispossessed them and pushed them into a downward spiral of indigence, in a cruel sleight of hand the government began to use their own penury against them. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z This compression of a millennium inside a single sentence — a contemporary writer gazing through his window at a medieval world — introduces us to the novelistic sleight of hand Hertmans is intent on bringing off. The True Story of a Medieval Romeo and Juliet 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z “I like to hide a lot of things,” Badiee says of his sleight of hand. Review | The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm, under a new chef, calls for a road trip 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Her depiction of a casually superpowered world — a state of affairs that has existed for about a decade — is the show’s comic armature and a deft bit of sleight of hand. ‘Extraordinary’ Review: The Power of Powerlessness 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The confines of its realism mask narrative sleight of hand. “The Girlfriend Experience” Is Not an Experience 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z This is a story that doesn’t just swallow its tail, it eats itself whole, but Mr. Heinlein’s narrative sleights of hand are very much of a piece with his playful take on identity. ‘Predestination,’ Starring Ethan Hawke 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z And yet, in a strange sleight of hand, she wasn’t. Sia is rejecting fame. Which has made her more famous than ever. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of sleight of hand to Martin McDonagh’s bleak-humored play about an executioner who, after one last hanging, goes off to run a pub. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z This may be a first: The venerable Philadelphia Flower Show, which seeks to anticipate spring through floral sleight of hand, is this week coinciding with the real thing. A flower show offers some calm amid the storm 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The history of Mysterio in the comics suggests that a sleight of hand could be at play here: Fury is usually represented as the ultimate figure of trust in the MCU. Marvel rolls the dice after Endgame: enter Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A strange narrative sleight of hand associates Godzilla with nuclear calamity but muddies the actual causal relationship. Godzilla review – big, scary monsters but no bite in satire-stripped remake 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And of course, sleight of hand: Before a minute goes by, Parks has her fingerprints all over your feelings. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z I would be pleased if readers considered Annie’s levitation merely a literary sleight of hand, a sort of late-stage magic realism. John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z This is the sleight of hand this extraordinary but frustrating band can perform, leaving you scratching your head over how something can be so radically different from the sum of its parts. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Brown is talking here about traditional magic – the smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand of a performer whose audience are willingly complicit in their own deception. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z But here, in addition, was another case that required sleight of hand with alternative settings. Music Review: Music Festival Greets a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-13T22:23:00Z The simplicity of this argument can make it seem like sleight of hand, but the principle of explosion is fully sound and a key reason why contradictions cause intolerable destruction. A Married Bachelor Proves That Unicorns Exist 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The leaders of this White settler colony in southern Africa used tactics including sleight of hand, outright bans and restrictions on access to information to maintain power. DeSantis' weaponization of education turns deadly 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The paper was entirely clear about which factors were considered and which were excluded, they said, and there was no sleight of hand involved. A climate scientist wanted to start a debate in academia. He set off a bigger firestorm 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z But a close examination of the data reveals that Port Authority officials back their claims with some statistical sleight of hand. L.A. doesn't love N.Y. over 'We're No. 1' seaport claims 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z There’s this seamless quality of sort of sleight of hand … or something pulling off these layers of who Buddy is. How the show-stopping numbers of 'Pink Ladies' build on the musical vibe of 'Grease' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The sleight of hand is that demagogues like Trump are taking freedom and liberty away. Mile Taylor on why his "Anonymous" plan failed against Donald Trump 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z But she didn’t catch Kennedy’s deceptive sleight of hand. Column: RFK Jr.'s town hall showed the folly of trying to fact-check quackery in real time 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z It almost seemed like a sleight of hand. The Weirdest Particles in the Universe 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z “That, ladies and gentlemen, is a sleight of hand.” Debt deal imposes new work requirements for food aid and that frustrates many Democrats 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z This is more than just rhetorical sleight of hand. DeSantis' DEI boogeyman is all wrong 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z It's just another sleight of hand and twist of fate. Wicked game: Kevin McCarthy's debt-ceiling "crisis" is political theater at its worst 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z As the most abundant life form on Earth, there are plenty to go around, and, given the right culinary sleight of hand, they make a dandy, nutritious meal. It's the end of the world, and T.C. Boyle's characters feel meh 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The scientists wanted to learn if monkeys could be fooled by sleight of hand magic tricks — specifically three species: common marmosets, Humboldt's squirrel monkeys and yellow-breasted capuchins. Monkeys without opposable thumbs aren't fooled by magic tricks, study finds 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z It said the county used “sleight of hand” by putting the finance department in charge of the grant application instead of elections officials. Trump cheers push for Georgia investigation into Zuck Bucks grant 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Slydini practiced a sui generis style of sleight of hand that was a balletic extension of his expressive gestures. The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z There comes a time when you realize that magic acts are just sleight of hand. Perspective | What will Ron Rivera do when Taylor Heinicke’s magic finally runs out? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z That’s a staggering share of overall operating costs that defies any budgetary sleight of hand. Opinion | Smooth sailing for Metro, for now, as storm clouds gather 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z It was a season that had seemed doomed from the beginning — and the pessimism festered during a 2-3 start — until Seattle pulled off an astonishing sleight of hand. Who are the real Seahawks? We’re about to find out 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Or perhaps by way of some other perceptual sleight of hand. Review: Mentalist Vinny DePonto plays benevolent mind games at the Geffen Playhouse 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z “I will not accept corruption or cronyism. I will not accept sleight of hand or shuffling problems around,” she said in her victory speech. Column: Amid the first-day cheers, Bass knows she has her work cut out for her 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “Worst case is, there’s sleight of hand going on behind the scenes.” Is the fever breaking? Ticket splitters in WA election are signs of hope 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The element of surprise, the sleight of hand, the decoy and deception, arrived eventually. Jones strikes upbeat tone despite puzzling defeat 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Then again, maybe the guys were just basking in their sleight of hand, this injection of flavor that is both a signature and a cipher, unidentifiable by traditional methods. Review | Little Chicken is a downtown playground built with a lot of hard work 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z But after the barber’s heavy sleight of hand, his creation of a hairline, my mother felt it was time for a reset. A man without a hairline 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z His chief lieutenants will be brought down and face very substantial fines for their economic and financial sleight of hand. Former federal prosecutor: A "day of reckoning" is coming for Trump — but he's not going to jail 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s fitting that the artist has taken a class on magic, and that he continues to read up on the subject; behind his playful sleights of hand is a rigorous artistic practice. Kenny Rivero’s Tricks of the Eye 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z For falling for the sleight of hand: a repackaging of available ingredients into something that the Papa Johns marketing team has the cheek to call “innovation.” Review | Papa Johns’ new pizza bowls are bad execution of a bad idea 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z This is either done by force or by sleight of hand, without victims knowing they had just been robbed. Thieves are targeting seniors, Glendale police say. How to avoid 'distraction theft' 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Do you feel safe knowing that this tactical use of rhetorical sleight of hand is actually accompanied by a straight face — or perhaps a sly grin? All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z That was kind of my sleight of hand to get us out of the room, off the topic, and moving forward before we got this disastrous order. Mark Esper on Trump: ‘There were a lot of bad ideas being proposed’ 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z No one, that is, except the audience, for whom its nimble sleight of hand is a fiendishly entertaining tour de force. Review | ‘Official Competition’ skewers the pretensions of cinema, hilariously 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z The feat of promotional sleight of hand performed by the NFL regarding its scheduling rollout Thursday once again leaves me in awe. NFL reaffirms it knows how to fire up the hype machine by putting Russell Wilson’s return to Seattle up first 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It says that the “deliciously scandalous” memoir will reveal “the truth behind the Academy’s sleights of hand,” documenting issues including “inappropriate sex” and “on-site drug use.” Scandal engulfed L.A.'s storied Magic Castle. Can new leaders turn it around? 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z How they play is an endless sleight of hand that leaves the audience gasping and the defense always hunting for the ball. Perspective | The Warriors don’t stop moving, or sharing, and foes can’t keep up 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Magic acts don’t often make audiences gasp, laugh and cry, but throughout its three seasons on Netflix, “Magic for Humans” has delivered equal parts bewildering sleight of hand and genuine emotion. 31 must-see acts to catch during Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The paintings on display beyond the antechamber play on themes of spectacle, public perception and sleight of hand. Derek Fordjour examines magic, race and revelry in two L.A. art installations 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It is merely a sleight of hand and a twist of fate, and we're all resting on Bono's bed of nails while we wait for the other shoe to drop. The Putin caucus undermines Biden at home — while Americans risk their lives in Ukraine 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z After all else failed — the naked partisan trickery; the cartographical sleight of hand; the threats of months of litigation — Maryland’s political tribes finally agreed on a redrawn congressional map. Opinion | After dysfunction, Maryland finally adopts new congressional districts 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In a clever sleight of hand, she has conscripted us in an ongoing, collaborative performance piece, tricked us into supporting a career-long commentary on narcissism. Yayoi Kusama is back at the Hirshhorn. Here’s what you need to know. 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z While some truckers try to use hi-tech sleight of hand to dodge the restrictions, some desperate travellers are simply trying to hide in their cars to get where they want to go. China truckers use fake travel records, 'clean' drivers to dodge COVID rules 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Elrich’s rhetorical sleight of hand is to criticize any effort to expand the housing supply that is not entirely affordable — that is, priced for low-income residents. Opinion | Montgomery County’s problems are solvable 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z This sleight of hand might keep working for a while. There’s something off about ApeCoin 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Republicans have defended their maps with displays of statistical sleight of hand. In Ohio, a Standoff Over Political Maps Threatens the Next Elections 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But the restaurant’s Russian heritage is a bit of a sleight of hand. That Russian Business You’re Boycotting Isn’t Actually Russian 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z His statement plays sleight of hand with the facts. Analysis | McConnell’s flub on Black voters misstated the facts, too 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Pressing you for information is a relationship sleight of hand that has you feeling so uncomfortable that you're deferring to authority she doesn't actually have. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Friend refers to her daughter’s partner as her ‘roommate.’ Let it go? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z I did find it hilarious that, during the winter flashback, the roads were plowed, a sleight of hand Somerville admits was necessary for production to continue. Is the pandemic-set 'Station Eleven' great TV or not? We fight it out 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The building also bears some of the visual sleights of hand borrowed from the industry that helped build it. Wilshire Boulevard Temple's new event space is daring — and trapped inside its own head 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z “What we are seeing here is this sleight of hand going on,” the Orange County mayor said. Southeast U.S. poised for a firestorm of omicron cases, with few safeguards in place 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But most Republicans in the Senate and virtually all of them in the House, fearing primaries from the right and harsh condemnation from Mar-a-Lago, wanted nothing to do with the legislative sleight of hand. Divide Over Debt Limit Shows Pragmatic Republicans Are Dwindling 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The commission’s sleight of hand began shortly after chair Sarah Augustine brought the Nov. 15 online meeting to order and called roll. The people have a right to know how government conducts its business 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Experience has shown that emissions pledges and projections are subject to too much error, uncertainty and sleight of hand to guide action on climate. To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z There’s a sleight of hand at play, of course, since there is no one mansaf: Its interpretations vary from Syria to Lebanon, from Zarqa to Salt, from tribe to tribe. For Many Members of the Arab American Diaspora, Mansaf Offers a Taste of Home 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s the ghastly sleight of hand that is a hallmark of Trumpism: While we’re distracted by worst-case scenarios that don’t quite happen, pillars of justice and democracy can still erode — subtly but surely. Review | What Barrett’s rise has meant for the Supreme Court 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The dendrological sleight of hand was the subject of extensive discussion over the summer as Europeans considered a proposal to eliminate forest wood as an acceptable source of sustainable biomass. E.U.’s big climate ambitions have the scent of wood smoke 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The dendrological sleight of hand was the subject of extensive discussion this summer as Europeans considered a proposal to eliminate forest wood as an acceptable source of sustainable biomass. E.U.’s big climate ambitions have the scent of wood smoke 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Women have been inextricable from variety arts since humans first discovered the awe that accompanies a sleight of hand or pulling a rabbit from a top hat. A new show aims to make an antiquated notion — that women in the variety arts don't exist — disappear 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z That has not stopped conservative groups and Republican lawmakers from seizing on the sleight of hand to criticize Democrats. In Spending Bill, Democrats Rely on Budget Gimmicks They Once Derided 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This linguistic sleight of hand alarms some longtime environmentalists, who worry that if the building’s ambitious goals are not met, critics may argue that the project amounts to marketing without substance. An Arena Where the Goal Is ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Emissions, Even From Fans 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z “For all the blink-and-it’s-gone sleights of hand,” writes essayist Lynell George in one such section, “here in Los Angeles, the deep past can catch you unawares.” L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z In a recent report, the Overseas Development Institute warned a "sleight of hand" with foreign aid risked sabotaging negotiations in Glasgow. COP26: PM warned over aid cuts ahead of climate summit 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Some of the programs in the larger spending bill could try to sidestep the affordability question by using a sleight of hand that both parties have long employed. Biden’s Plans Raise Questions About What U.S. Can Afford Not to Do 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z One part of that package has already been pegged as a deficit-raiser, and in a bit of sleight of hand, the White House is now focused on the second part. Analysis | Biden’s claim that his spending plan ‘costs zero dollars’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Conservative philosophy is based on this linguistic sleight of hand; it’s all about promoting the happiness of a few to the detriment of the many. Opinion | Equal opportunity for happiness, not equal results 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The ocean seems to achieve “an amazing sleight of hand—like a magician”, says Bowman. Australian Bush Fires Belched Out Immense Quantity of Carbon 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z When Obama declared the war over in 2014 — and announced that U.S. troops would no longer be in direct conflict — officials knew it was mere sleight of hand. Review | Buried doubts and public deceptions in the Afghan war 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Here, sleight of hand is the book’s organizing metaphor. ‘All’s Well’ in Mona Awad’s latest novel, a gripping reimagining of Shakespeare 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The trick, the sleight of hand, is a script that doesn’t seem scripted. Review | An anthology of great speeches, from the inspirational to the ominous 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The transformation, which Casarosa describes as “a sleight of hand,” was tricky. The story behind ‘Luca’s’ sea monsters and how they were brought to life 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Thomas said Terry and the government “offer a sleight of hand” to obscure the clear text of the law. Supreme Court says law does not allow new sentences for all crack convictions 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Eurasian jays are not newcomers to subterfuge: To thwart thieves while they’re storing food, jays will perform something very like sleight of hand — sleight of beak, if you will — if another jay is watching. Magic Tricks May Fool You, but These Birds Can See Through Them 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Ingres’s anatomical sleights of hand are often remarked on: He places de Broglie’s right arm, for instance, at such an angle that it couldn’t possibly connect with her unseen shoulder. Beauty embalmed in a painting He fully expected that someone would challenge him about this sleight of hand, he told a panel discussion for the 25th anniversary of the film, “But nobody did.” Jerome Hellman, producer of ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ ‘Coming Home’ and other films, dies at 92 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Her book provides plenty of showing, and the audio component is all telling, but somehow it amounts to very little, as if this project is one big, disorienting sleight of hand. Review: Billie Eilish's new photo memoir is unpretentious to a fault 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The Obama administration used similar sleights of hand under the bureaucratic term “force management levels,” which resulted in more troops in war zones with little public oversight. How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The Obama administration used similar sleights of hand under the bland, bureaucratic term “force management levels,” which resulted in more troops in war zones with little public oversight. U.S. Has 1,000 More Troops in Afghanistan Than It Disclosed 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In truth, this game was won in the first two days, after which India's spinners tormented the England batsmen with their sleight of hand, natural variation and relentless accuracy. England lose series in another collapse 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Landing anything close to the equivalent of Wilson would be another sleight of hand with a degree of difficulty so high as to be highly unlikely. There are three ways to resolve Russell Wilson’s grievances, and two of them are bad for the Seahawks 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Magicians take advantage of the ability to redirect gaze and attention to enhance their sleight of hand. When Our Gaze Is a Physical Force 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z There are also fears that cash-strapped states, through budgetary sleight of hand, would divert the funding elsewhere. Vaccines, dollars and Biden ratchet up pressure on teachers to return to school 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The field of twistronics remains in its infancy, and the fussy process of twisting microscopic specks of graphene to the magic position still requires sleight of hand, or at least deft lab work. Twisted graphene could power a new generation of superconducting electronics 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z An inveterate skeptic and bristly contrarian in his profession, Mr. Randi insisted that magic is based solely on earthly sleight of hand and visual trickery. James Randi, magician and escape artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The protections for career civil servants currently in place at least put some roadblocks on that path, hence this legally dubious plan to erase those protections with a touch of organizational sleight of hand. Opinion | Trump’s newest executive order could prove one of his most insidious 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The usual tricks and sleights of hand that comprise many budget seasons are not going to cut it this time. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z For a long time, this enticement facilitated a clever sleight of hand, persuading ordinary Americans to root for a guy who revels in firing people. Opinion | The Trump Show is facing cancellation. It feels as if it’s already over. 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z One independent appraiser also flagged concerns about a “sleight of hand” technique that compared nearby sales on a price-per-acre basis, then applied it to much larger lots on Seven Springs. Trump got a $21 million tax break for saving the forest outside his N.Y. mansion. Now the deal is under investigation. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Randi then duplicated the stunt with standard sleight of hand. James Randi, magician and escape artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Voters must regard that as political sleight of hand. The Times recommends: Keep the King County sheriff an elected office 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z On August 26th, during the Republican National Convention, Vice President Mike Pence closed out his acceptance speech with a biblical sleight of hand. The rise of Christian Nationalism in America 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z No bricks-and-mortar restaurant, just one concept producing the food of another, a sleight of hand, like donning a costume and a funny accent — all to feed Americans’ growing appetite for delivery. The pandemic has made ghost kitchens one of restaurant industry’s few growth areas 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But we've also used sleight of hand: shell games of carbon credits, a focus on inventing incredible new sustainable-energy tech while still pumping over 10 million barrels of oil a year out of the ground. The climate crisis is happening right now. Just look at California’s weekend 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The book is timely on its own, however, as the idea that a democracy’s highest officials might use verbal sleights of hand to distract citizens from a crisis has been cropping up of late. Review | The reporter who revealed the truth about Hiroshima 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z The magical sleight of hand here requires that students be told that the model captures the essence of what capitalists actually do. COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The host then slammed Biden's record and called his latest proposal "sleight of hand." Laura Ingraham calls out Biden for 'sleight of hand' economic plan: 'Just another act' 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Masters of Illusion Host Dean Cain gets a lesson in sleight of hand as he welcomes another slate of talented illusionists. What's on TV Friday: 'Obsession: Stalked by My Lover'; soccer 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Then, in the usual sleight of hand, focus is drawn to the subsequent violence and looting, as if perpetuated by legitimate protesters of unjust, targeted acts of aggression. Police harassment of my youth and executive career haunts me still 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Afropessimists say this misses the point, but I usually lose the thread of their responses when the sleight of hand begins. Review | What if the problem of racism has no solution? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z This is yet more magical sleight of hand. COVID-19 exposes the weakness of capitalism 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Teller brings sleight of hand to the stage magic, which is documented in behind-the-scenes features also available for viewing. Where to stream plays by area theaters amid coronavirus closures 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The recklessness of Massie’s stunt notwithstanding, House and Senate leaders should not be relying on parliamentary sleights of hand to move massive pieces of emergency legislation without a roll call vote. Opinion | Everyone is learning how to work remotely. Lawmakers should, too. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z When she is kidnapped by his supplier, he uses his sleight of hand and keen intelligence to find her. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z It was a sleight of hand characteristic of Asia’s shrewdest veteran politician — and it left Malaysians breathless from the political machinations. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Resigns 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Todd was accused of using "journalistic sleights of hand" to insult Sanders supporters, the same group he called part of a "digital brownshirt brigade" earlier this week. MSNBC's Chuck Todd says he doesn't understand how Bernie Sanders is 'considered a front-runner' 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That sleight of hand enables Trump to promise to whittle down a $1.08 budget deficit for the ongoing budget year and a $966 billion deficit gap in the 2021 fiscal year starting Oct. Trump’s $4.8 billion budget proposal revisits rejected cuts 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z "They are doing a sleight of hand with those studies," said Crits-Christoph. Does science support the "wilderness" in wilderness therapy? 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z “I was learning to do sleight of hand by amazing magicians, and I demonstrated magic over-the-counter, like I am now again doing,” he chuckled. New Mexico magic studio highlights immigrant illusionist 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s not fair to call it smoke and mirrors, but there has been a distinct element of sleight of hand. The Seahawks are broken. Do they have time to fix it before their Super Bowl hopes vanish completely? 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Trump’s paradoxical sleight of hand makes him think he can hide in plain sight. Mental health professionals read Trump's letter: A study in "the psychotic mind" at work 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z But instead, the “Okay” hand sign works more like a sleight of hand. Analysis | How the ‘Okay’ hand sign keeps tricking us into looking 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z There are no stunts here, nor sleights of hand. The Street: the 1940s African American thriller that became a huge bestseller 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Keep your eye on this sleight of hand whenever Republicans start moaning about the cost of “entitlements.” Column: Buttigieg is wrong--Free college should be free for all, including children of the rich 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Young alleges that such sleights of hand indicate that Zak, or people working with him, had an ulterior agenda. 'People are caught up in magical thinking': was the oldest woman in the world a fraud? 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Asked by reporters if the pledge was nothing more than sleight of hand, he said: General election: Johnson's record of lying and prejudice makes him unfit to be PM, say Lib Dems – live news 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But his critics see this as a sleight of hand to give his writing a veneer of nonpartisan objectivity. The Man Trump Trusts for News on Ukraine 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “To accomplish this sleight of hand, her proposal dramatically understates its cost, overstates its savings, inflates the revenue, and pretends that an employer payroll tax increase is something else.” Elizabeth Warren outlines $20-trillion 'Medicare for all' plan at pivotal point in the campaign 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z And yet there is a reason within the movie itself for this provocative sleight of hand. Meryl Streep and Steven Soderbergh on the ending of 'The Laundromat' and that surprising dual role 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “Here’s what they’re saying: no settlements of any kind. That’s a legal sleight of hand,” said the news anchor, who previously worked as an attorney. Megyn Kelly goes home to Fox News — and trashes NBC News over Matt Lauer 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z This, he says, is a breathtaking sleight of hand that could bring about serious civil disorder. 'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z By a sleight of hand, advocates say, the administration’s climate denial morphs into a defense of oil drilling based on climate science. As Trump Administration Downplays Warming, Agencies Chronicle Climate Impacts 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z They then pulled off a fiscal sleight of hand, delaying $1.7 billion in scheduled Medicaid payments by three days — effectively pushing the cost to the following year’s budget. After Hospitals’ Big Donation to N.Y. Democrats, a $140 Million Payout 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “The chip is like a conjurer’s sleight of hand that turns an egg into a billiard ball, a necessity of life into a plaything, reality into illusion,” Mr. Alvarez wrote. Al Alvarez, British critic and author who championed poetry and poker, dies at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, he has so thoroughly convinced himself of it that when he quotes from “The Mind of the Moralist” he performs the sleight of hand of saying “she writes” or “Sontag notes.” Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Nearly a decade ago, he engaged in sleight of hand to shuffle in the Confederate version of the great seal of the commonwealth of Virginia. Trump's Statue of Bigotry is not Cuccinelli's first neo-Confederate assault | Sidney Blumenthal 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z That sleight of hand inspired the previous round of large street protests, which Mr. Putin ended with a combination of harsh crackdown and renewed nationalism. With Pickets, Russian Protesters Look to Sustain Momentum 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Noorani said the government’s moves were a legal “sleight of hand” that violated the constitution and would be challenged before India’s Supreme Court. In Modi’s move on Kashmir, a road map for his ‘new India’ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Probably those with mental disabilities, but the idea that mass shooter phenomenon is “a mental illness problem” is another Trumpian sleight of hand. Trump's response to the weekend massacres show he is an ethical black hole | Moustafa Bayoumi 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Mirrors, smoke, sleight of hand, trap doors or false walls and distractions, these are the tools of the magician’s disappearing act. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z These must be done with sleight of hand but even if you are caught red-handed, as long as you have high priced representation on retainer, you can outmaneuver prosecutors. Jeffrey Epstein is Exhibit A for capitalism’s moral bankruptcy 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Dennis added that loaning money to your own campaign, as Lundquist did, is “sleight of hand to make your numbers look stronger than they are.” This Valley candidate got more votes with less money. Can she do it again? Now it’s possible the itty-bitty blockchain committee shares my amazingly sophisticated sense of humor, but what seems more likely is that some sleight of hand is going on. Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, explained 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Boris Johnson is the frontrunner because he is a master of misdirection – the conjuring technique for steering an audience’s eyes away from sleight of hand, deception passed off as magic. The Tory contest shows that the Brexiters’ dream is dying before their very eyes | Rafael Behr 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z There is certainly poetry in the sleight of hand he practises with his long, elegant fingers. Use your illusion: the magic supergroup that tricked the world 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z The lay crowd, unable to decide whether the magic is a preternatural feat of memory or a comparatively banal sleight of hand, must surrender to amazement. Review: Helder Guimarães brings his philosophical magic to the Geffen 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Whether onstage or at the barre, whether practicing alone or bringing an audience to a boil, this Nureyev can be seen whole, in leaps and bounds, with no editor’s sleight of hand. “The White Crow” and the Difficulty with Dance Movies 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z I seem to recall some feeble attempts at card tricks and other sleight of hand in my youth. With just 2 egg whites and some sugar, you can make a showstopping pavlova for dessert 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z And for all the questions, doubts, contradictions, sleights of hand, Mr Trump emerges with two key headlines: Mueller says there was no collusion; the attorney-general says there was no obstruction of justice. Democrats pressure Trump on Russia report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It has become quite a journalistic art — or better yet, sleight of hand. Inside the Beltway: Fake news now joined by false narratives 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The Trump administration’s attempt to squeeze self-employed individuals into the definition of employer is “a magic trick,” and the rationale offered by the Labor Department is a sleight of hand, Judge Bates said. In Blow to Trump, Judge Blocks Health Care Law ‘End Run’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The judge accused Mr. Manafort of a sleight of hand throughout the criminal proceeding against him, including wrongly inflating his assets in a bail hearing and exaggerating the harshness of his conditions in jail. Paul Manafort’s Prison Sentence Is Nearly Doubled to 7½ Years 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z A proposal from the conservative Alabama Policy Institute, based in Birmingham, indulges in similar wishful thinking and sleight of hand. Alabama editorial roundup 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z And though “The Once and Future Worker” offers a rousing call for an honest reckoning with American economic policy, it also indulges in its own sleight of hand. Are Robots Competing for Your Job? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In President Trump’s State of the Union address we saw a brilliant display of rhetorical sleight of hand on the economy. Trump's SOTU sleight-of-hand disappears the growing wealth Pyramid 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Thus, we find him working by sleight of hand, often starting with questions before establishing a foundation of understanding. Review | The more we learn about the universe, the more mysterious it becomes 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z With bay after bay of blinding white sand and clear cerulean waters, this part of the world could have been enhanced by a Technicolor enthusiast’s sleight of hand. Bitten by a great white shark: survivors on their near-death experience 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z I add breath, I add angles, I add the sleight of hand that makes it look magical. How do you make a sex scene sexy? (And keep the actors safe?) Five intimacy coordinators explain their craft 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Such sleight of hand is the industry standard in reality television. How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z "Dershowitz often misleads the public through sleight of hand like this. His deceptive phrases are so carefully worded that I'm convinced he is deliberately deceiving people." Harvard law scholar Alan Dershowitz distorts the facts as he defends Team Trump, legal experts claim 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z And his description of a manufacturing revival, as if created by a wave of his “magic wand,” was a sleight of hand. AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s thin grasp of trade, science policy 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z With his excellence at magic and sleight of hand, it was inevitable that he should be called upon to assist on films that dealt in or touched on those subjects. Ricky Jay obituary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z These were, strictly speaking, nothing more than tricks or illusions, sleights of hand performed by a master magician. Ricky Jay, magician whose sleight of hand defied logic or physics, dies at 72 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Deploying a kind of financial sleight of hand, the trades made it appear as if the pension plans had purchased shares of Danish companies and paid taxes on the dividends. Where in the World Is Denmark’s $2 Billion? 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Let's examine how much these technical sleights of hand distort what's happening to people's earnings. Opinion | Don’t be fooled: Working Americans are worse off under Trump 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z But that’s an intellectually dishonest sleight of hand intended to divert the conversation from state violence, a misdirection seized on time and again by America’s president. Colin Kaepernick is out of the NFL but he is more powerful than ever 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The United States won’t achieve its aims in Afghanistan — to keep the country from being overrun by extremists allied with al-Qaida and other international terrorist groups — through diplomatic sleight of hand. The Taliban doesn’t need peace — it’s winning 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The United States won’t achieve its aims in Afghanistan — to keep the country from being overrun by extremists allied with al-Qaeda and other international terrorist groups — through diplomatic sleight of hand. Opinion | The Taliban doesn’t need peace. It’s winning. 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z But we don’t always have to fall quite so completely for their owners’ sleight of hand. How Lazio’s ultras must wish they had the cash reserves of Man City | Marina Hyde 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z A closer look reveals the industry’s sleight of hand. The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z The pastoral moralism that he was often accused of peddling was actually a clever sleight of hand. The road taken by Robert Frost through New England 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z That is achievable but rests on some sleight of hand and wishful thinking. GE’s Plan Rests on Promises and Some Sleight of Hand 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Oake was not adept enough with that sleight of hand either. NHL Awards get awkward when card trick meant to celebrate Kings' Kopitar falls flat 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z There was no sleight of hand here, no subtlety, no disguise, nothing that wasn’t thoroughly predictable. Andreas Granqvist gives Sweden victory over South Korea after VAR intervention 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The argument pitched to these people in the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” is centered in sleight of hand. Trump’s pandering to working-class voters has a long and ugly history: My family fell for it 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Another statistical sleight of hand involves the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. Cost-Benefit Reform at the EPA 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z It was yet another example of the palace’s sleight of hand, with the king disbanding or reshuffling cabinets in a bid to quell discord. With protests rocking Jordan, king accepts resignation of prime minister, names reformer as successor 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Other teaser videos echoed this idea, too, though with less sleight of hand. The Skydio R1 is becoming the drone GoPro should have made 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Flood the network with pathetic amounts of misinformation, sleights of hand, and misdirection, because this tactic is 100% proven to work. Now would be a very good time to delete Facebook - Golf Digest 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s a show where the hand of the artist might better be described as often marvelous sleight of hand. Tony DeLap's hybrids of painting and sculpture are impossible objects 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z This administrative sleight of hand is known as “quota swapping” and is unfortunately common in the hunting industry. Exclusive: An Inside Look at Cecil the Lion’s Final Hours 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z One of the highest-ranking women in government, Ms. McMahon, 69, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, has helped steer a more than $1 billion empire built on branding sizzle and sleight of hand. Linda McMahon Gets a Ringside Seat for TrumpMania 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Instead, they use sleight of hand maneuvers on visits. For prisoners like me, books are a lifeline. Don't cut it 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s a sleight of hand designed to help the far right shove through sharp new limits on legal immigration, under the pretense of moderation and reasonableness. Opinion | Trump’s immigration ‘compromise’ is a trick 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The bill also contains some accounting sleight of hand that ignores actual inflation rates. Alabama editorial roundup 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Though Mr. Fox’s array of talents included sleight of hand and hammering a spike into his nose, he was best known for sword swallowing, a skill he displayed all over the country. Passages 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The way to accomplish this, he believes, is through a kind of genetic sleight of hand. Review | For better or worse, we’re all related 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Undeterred, New Jersey’s lawmakers devised what many saw as a sleight of hand move. Supreme Court may be about to legalize sports betting nationwide 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Then there is this sleight of hand: While the Senate bill makes the corporate tax cut permanent, it sets all the proposed reductions for individuals to expire at the end of 2025. Opinion | Republicans: Enrage your colleagues 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z I’d guess yes, and I’m not exactly doubtful more filmmakers will find yet another sleight of hand in order to shoehorn Mr. Bell into the storyline. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Jigsaw’ a worthy, not obligatory, addition to ‘Saw’ universe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Networks want ratings, which sometimes translates into using cheap sleight of hand. Web series becoming TV pilots is the new normal 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z But when it comes to the hardest obstacles, sometimes even sleight of hand falls short, said Andrew Feldman, an associate broker with Triplemint. The Most Common Obstacles to a Sale — and What to Do About Them 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z With her appeal, MacLean executed a rather clever sleight of hand, one easily enabled by the anger-laden polemics of US politics. How Amazon reviews became the new battlefield of US politics 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z That digital sleight of hand is great for inquisitive readers, but bad for the publishers that are increasingly dependent on subscription dollars for survival. Google Unveils Tools to Increase Subscriptions for Publishers 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z This sleight of hand increases deficit spending by billions of dollars annually. Congress should reject gimmicks in next ‘budget deal’ 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z It was also a remarkably successful bit of marketing sleight of hand in which New England monument companies sold the same statues to towns and citizens groups on both sides of the Civil War divide. Why those Confederate soldier statues look a lot like their Union counterparts 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z We must not accept this dangerous sleight of hand, nor tepid condemnations unaccompanied by meaningful action — especially from the empowered and the powerful. Silence in the face of torches and swastikas is unacceptable 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z That culminated in the evaluation result, which used the actors’ ability to read each guest in the moment, and incorporated a bit of psychological sleight of hand. How HBO’s Westworld installation made fans ‘the center of the universe’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z A rhetorical sleight of hand meant to trap the critic in a corner and to hide the speaker’s true intent. What White America Must Do Next 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z This is the genius sleight of hand of the project: the legacy was being implemented already. Legacy, what legacy? Five years on the London Olympic park battle still rages 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z What keeps "Dunkirk" from being completely straightforward is a kind of temporal sleight of hand. Christopher Nolan puts audiences in the middle of WWII in the intimate and epic 'Dunkirk' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Accounting sleight of hand may play some role. Predictably, China’s Year-on-Year Growth Maintains Its Steady Pace 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z “He’s become really good at sleight of hand, it’s amazing.” Homicide detective’s magic touch: Card tricks 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z The Republican emphasis on spending growth is a sleight of hand that both parties resort to when it suits their political purposes. AP FACT CHECK: When a swoopy line on a chart misleads 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z But we’re less forgiving with charities, which we expect to be both philanthropists and educators, untainted by marketing sleight of hand. Why Don’t You Donate for Syrian Refugees? Blame Bad Marketing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Strictly speaking, the line represented a sleight of hand. In climate change decision, Trump sticks with his most loyal voters and defies others 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z On top of this, the budget’s revenue and deficit projections are so contingent upon wishful thinking and accounting sleights of hand that they are virtually meaningless. The Trump Administration’s Budget Charade 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “The fuzzy math and sleight of hand can’t hide the fact that the President’s $200 billion plan is more than wiped out by other cuts to key infrastructure programs,” Schumer said in a statement. Trump advisers call for privatizing some public assets to build new infrastructure 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z But getting goods into the country requires some sleight of hand. Groups quietly bypass Venezuela’s ban on humanitarian aid 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Did you see the sleight of hand there? Trumpcare: What happened to the press’s obsession with bipartisan votes? 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z In 2014, in a cynical sleight of hand, the Palestinian Authority passed off the official responsibility of allocating these payments to the PLO. Perspective | Palestinians are rewarding terrorists. The U.S. should stop enabling them. 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Alone in the penumbral glow of the gym, Maravich pirouetted across the hardwood, schooling invisible foes with breakneck sleights of hand. Letter of Recommendation: ‘Pistol Pete’s Homework Basketball’ 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z While the 650 million viewing figure happily chucked about was the usual “potential audience” sleight of hand, this was huge. Lionel Messi ‘slays dragon’ with a fitting finale to wild and wonderful clásico | Sid Lowe 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z But Representative Louise Slaughter, an upstate Democrat, said Republicans were trying “steal billions from New York to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy,” calling the shift “a political sleight of hand.” Medicaid Fight Lands in New York, Crossing Party Lines 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., called the GOP plan “a political sleight of hand” that seeks to buy GOP votes - and pay for tax cuts for the wealthy - at the expense of New Yorkers. GOP bill shifts NY Medicaid costs; Dems call ‘Buffalo Bribe’ 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter called it “a political sleight of hand.” Republicans target New York state in health care bill 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Given today’s media landscape, when every piece of plywood and liquor license is cause for reporting, it takes a magician’s sleight of hand to keep a project like Vespertine under wraps. Vespertine, a new Culver City restaurant from chef Jordan Kahn, will combine food and architecture 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The author of more than a dozen novels, Auster occupies a unique niche in American fiction, renowned for his mind-bending sleights of hand and inventive fiddling with narrative points of view. Paul Auster’s ‘4 3 2 1’: four versions of one man’s life 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Instead, they harness heat from the Sun to chill buildings through a neat bit of thermodynamic sleight of hand. How heat from the Sun can keep us all cool 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The Sun newspaper described the move as "magical" and one viewer tweeted: "does @BBCJonSopel moonlight as a sleight of hand magician in his spare time!?" Jon Sopel's gloves: How they appeared as if by magic - BBC News 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z It is a clever sleight of hand that turns tragic. Asghar Farhadi's new film goes deep into shame and vengeance in Iran 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The ability of the Republicans to bring together business interests with antiliberal populism is an impressive bit of ideological sleight of hand. How Donald Trump Differs From European Nationalists 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Trump engages in some sleight of hand here, equating “politicians” with “Washington.” Fact-checking President Trump’s inaugural address 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z There’s always a sleight of hand going on where they are also something else. History and comedy collide with Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Dave Franco in 'The Little Hours' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Some believe sleight of hand occurred during the intervening months, raising the question of who was buried in Buffalo Bill’s Golden grave? Gravesite legend survives century since western icon’s death 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It was also a bit of sleight of hand. The self-referential presidency of Barack Obama 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z With this sleight of hand, even Revolution Day is now actually a celebration of the war effort. Tragedy or triumph? Russians agonise over how to mark 1917 revolutions 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z This instance is an early reminder of just how tiring that job will be, especially for a president-elect prone to chronic sleight of hand. A Trump Cabinet Pick and the Ties That Bind 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z While Trump’s tweets are outrageous and against the law, more important, they are his tragically effective sleight of hand trick that distracts everyone from the “real” issues. ‘I’m Not Celebrating the Death of a Human Being’ 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z With a few statistical sleights of hand and enormous heaps of professional contempt for the laity, academics helped to shut down that debate. How the Democrats could win again, if they wanted | Thomas Frank 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Some will see the distinction between white nationalism and white supremacy as a semantic sleight of hand. ‘White Nationalism,’ Explained 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Trump perfectly exemplified this populist sleight of hand in an impromptu remark at a campaign rally. Populists are out to divide us. They must be stopped | Timothy Garton Ash 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But many consumers are livid at the perceived sleight of hand and the change to the traditional look of the treat. Business Highlights 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z The strategy, known among tax practitioners as a “stock-for-debt swap,” relies on mathematical sleight of hand. Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The strategy — known among tax practitioners as a “stock-for-debt swap” — relies on mathematical sleight of hand. Trump lawyers advised him that IRS might call tax dodge improper 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Trump wants to win through sleight of hand and Comey most likely just increased that possibility, however slightly. Emails, genitalia and the F.B.I. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The almost maniacal pomp and grandeur of the Chișinău City Gates combine a baroque sense of axial symmetry and approach with prefab concrete technology and a lot of architectural sleight of hand. The USSR in 10 buildings: Constructivist communes to Stalinist skyscrapers 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Sabin employs this rhetorical sleight of hand to reconcile what, to many, are inherently contradictory positions. Magnate’s Twin Goals: Fighting Climate Change and Electing Donald Trump 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z As with the name, the sleight of hand was interpreted not as a nod to tradition, but as a slap in the face. We’re Here! RB Leipzig’s Rise to Bundesliga Isn’t Welcomed by All 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z “If you study the major battles of history, you see that trickery wins every time,” Alexey Komarov, the military engineer in charge of this sleight of hand, said with a smile. A new weapon in Russia’s arsenal, and it’s inflatable 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z In a kind of verbal sleight of hand, Gülen sometimes quotes people’s accounts of speaking to the Prophet, giving the impression that he was the one who had the divine encounter. Turkey’s Thirty-Year Coup 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z That does cut costs dramatically, though even here there’s a little sleight of hand. President Obama Says We're Going to Mars. If Only It Were That Easy 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Defense attorneys are expected to characterize the government's case as using legal sleight of hand to bend federal law to fit defendant Bill Baroni and Bridget Anne Kelly's actions. What is 'Bridgegate'? Things to know as the trial begins 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s unlikely that we’ll see that kind of War of the Worlds-esque sleight of hand again anytime soon, and as a result the new Blair Witch can only go so far. Blair Witch is a reminder of all the scares you've loved before 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Some lawyers describe the arrangement by which the detention centre and the welfare of the asylum seekers there has been outsourced to Nauru as a legal sleight of hand. Nauru fiasco serves to confirm Danish group's suspicions of Australian tactics 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z A gourmet meal is a kind of magic act, a sleight of hand and heat, often performed with a little misdirection and some fast talk. The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z On the Moscow markets, this sleight of hand had a nickname: konvert, which means “envelope” and echoes the English verb “convert.” Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z When the saleswoman turned her back, the man used sleight of hand to pocket a bracelet or shove a cashmere sweater down his pants. The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Indeed, Sanders’ ongoing gripe seems a sleight of hand by fixating on superdelegates when it was the millions of everyday Democrats who handed Clinton her victory. “Thank you, Bernie, for coming”: Sanders’ convention speech only widened the rift in the Democratic party 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z "There are some amazing sequences that involve the sleight of hand and the magic." Cast of 'Now You See Me 2' return with bigger tricks and villain 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z She is accused of manipulating the federal budget to hide yawning deficits, a budgetary sleight of hand that her critics say helped her get re-elected in 2014. Michel Temer, Brazil’s Interim President, May Herald Shift to the Right 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Rousseff has vehemently denied her administration's financial sleight of hand moves constituted a crime and argued that such maneuvers were used by prior presidents without repercussions. A rancorous Senate debate on the fate of President Dilma Rousseff drags into a new day, with her critics arguing she caused deep damage to Latin America's largest nation while supporters called the effort to impeach her a coup d'etat 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But mostly, these moments — which are harrowing and unforgettable — are sleights of hand designed to trick the player into thinking they have control of a movie. Uncharted 4 is the best (and possibly last) game of its kind 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Hu directs his fight sequences with a showman’s flair but also a pickpocket’s sleight of hand. Martial-arts filmmaking master bends light and arrows to his will 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Sirer and others said Wright's blog post mainly amounts to a little sleight of hand using publicly available data. The mystery creator of the digital currency bitcoin has finally stepped forward _ or has he 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Rousseff is battling accusations that she used budgetary sleight of hand to hide the depths of Brazil’s economic troubles and enhance her re-election prospects. Brazil President Facing Impeachment Has Alienated Many Allies 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z They note that the budgetary sleight of hand that Ms. Rousseff is accused of employing to address the deficit has been used by many elected officials, though not on so large a scale. Brazil’s Lower House of Congress Votes for Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Then there's the little matter of a bit of political sleight of hand engaged in on Kaminsky's behalf. Do Some Votes Count More Than Others? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “There is no magic involved. There’s no trickery, there’s no sleight of hand. It’s just good old-fashioned democracy,” said Saul Gamoran, Cruz’s state chairman in Washington. Donald Trump is still struggling to install friendly delegates 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z That leaves Sanders to bank on an anti-democratic sleight of hand to secure the nomination. The Revolution Will Be Fantasized 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Like many in the film distribution business, Mimi Steinbauer has a story — "funniest example ever" — of the ingenious sleight of hand in marketing American movies to foreign lands. Not all American films travel easily. It takes expertise to connect them with foreign audiences. 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Does she really believe this ridiculous sleight of hand? Hillary will never get it: Why Bernie is running away with the youth vote 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z This is about addressing a long-term problem with a short-term sleight of hand. TWC's 30% solution for Dodgers' games isn't going to float 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “Opportunities exist for smoke and mirrors, sleights of hand and confusion on the part of the consumer,” said Katherine Klein, head of the Social Impact Initiative at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Selling High-End Socks by Giving Them Away 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The same legal sleight of hand occurred with interrogation practices. The military wouldn’t save us from President Trump’s illegal orders 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Southern Metropolis’s sleight of hand wasn’t subtle enough. The Strangulation of Chinese Expression Is Now Almost Total 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The reason this axiom works is that promises of big growth usually signify a statistical sleight of hand — legerdemath, if you will. Bernie Sanders’s statistical shenanigans 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And instead of using sleight of hand to avoid dealing with our deficit, I proposed a serious plan to balance our budget and set us on a more sustainable course. Text of Gov. Wolf’s prepared remarks on 2016-17 budget 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Therein lies a rhetorical sleight of hand: the notion, as Mark Joseph Stern repeated in a recent article, that substantive differences between the candidates are limited to “mostly minor policy disputes.” Dems, stop lying to yourselves about Hillary: Sure, she “get s*** done” — atrocious s***, that is 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z And a previous version of the Sanders endorsement television spot, aimed at Iowans ahead of Monday's caucuses, used a similar sleight of hand, touting the praise of Iowa's leading newspaper. Clinton Ad: Sanders “Knowingly Misleading” Voters About Support 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But it’s already clear that Johnson is a young filmmaker who has outgrown this particular bit of cinematic sleight of hand. Operation Avalanche is a fake documentary about the faked Apollo moon landing 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In a dissent that described Kennedy’s ruling as “astonishing” and “sleight of hand,” Justice Antonin Scalia said the majority’s goal was abolishing life imprisonment without parole for juveniles. Supreme Court: Life sentences on juveniles open for later reviews 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z And if folks here in Harrisburg thought this sleight of hand was a real solution to our budget problem, then the only people they were fooling were themselves. Text of Gov. Wolf’s prepared remarks on 2016-17 budget 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z An electron microscope shows how its closely packed pimples deny a grip to the stickiest fluids: A sleight of hand underpins the baffling performance. The Land Was Theirs 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z However, in a sleight of hand, local politicians voted to rename the city in exactly the same way: Dnipropetrovsk. Ukrainians say farewell to 'Soviet champagne' as decommunisation law takes hold 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The spin is so insidious that the sleight of hand all but escaped mention in the press—because who doesn’t love Adele right now? Kesha’s horrifying nightmare — and the Adele comparison from Sony that goes way beyond acceptable 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Through all sorts of financial sleight of hand and legal maneuvering, Allergan, the far smaller company, will end up buying Pfizer, with the combined company claiming residency in Ireland. Captains of Industry, and Otherwise, Breaking Bread 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But unlike the federal government, which gets scrutinized whenever Congress raises the debt ceiling, Kansas legislators and the governor are essentially doing the same with some sleight of hand. Recent Kansas Editorials 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It was the sleight of hand used after we stopped believing in Santa. I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z McCain accused Shelby, who is on the Senate Appropriations Committee, for a sleight of hand "in the middle of the night in the worst, disgraceful fashion." Capitol Buzz: McCain attacks fellow GOP senator over Russian rocket engine provision 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The mobster with the gentle seeking heart, the vicious operative working for the greater good, the tyrant that we love to hate are all literary sleights of hand, a form of entertainment and communal introspection. Trump's success as an antihero relies on the power of reality TV and drama over reality 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Without acknowledging we were doing so, we have engaged in a legal sleight of hand, substituting enriching the educational experience for remedying past injustice in designing affirmative action policy.” Will the Supreme Court shred affirmative action? 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It's unclear if conservatives will be satisfied with the procedural sleight of hand. GOP Feint on Obamacare Provides Path for Refugee Measure 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Without this sleight of hand, Cruz’s overall plan would cost more than $16tn over a decade and reduce total federal revenues by well over a third.” Ted Cruz's 'crazy' tax plan would cost US at least $16tn, thinktank says 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z It doesn’t help that NOAA’s sleight of hand here seems designed precisely to conceal the alleged “pause.” The Next Climate Scandal? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z For all the technical sleight of hand, there are limits to what aftermarket upgrades can bring to a car. Harnessing New Technology to Make Old Cars Safer 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump revealed his tax plan on Monday with flourish and sleight of hand, exaggerating its punitive impact on the rich. Trump Tax Plan a Triumph of Showmanship Over Common Sense 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z But as a stand-alone it’s just a stunt; a bit of visual sleight of hand. The Walk review: I hope you're not afraid of heights 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The game on TV is sleight of hand.” The Comprehensive Illusion of Football 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Much like a magician’s sleight of hand, this technique requires distraction. How to fake your way into a celebrity party 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Of course, there was a budgetary sleight of hand that made this possible. Trim the Pentagon's Fat 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z This behavior certainly seems to be typical of energy policy politics these days, when politicians not only duck tough issues, but avoid them through sleight of hand. Energy Politics: Nothing Up Their Sleeves 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s a small bit of sleight of hand, but it sets the tone for everything that follows. Ant-Man review: Marvel finds its new secret formula 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z While some experts said the conversion was incomplete and a sleight of hand, American officials said it satisfied their requirements, thus assuring it would not threaten the talks. Signs of a Compromise Over Inspections in Iran Nuclear Talks 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z We are, through some narrative sleight of hand, invited to believe that this is of course not demeaning or ironic in the way female stripping would be in a Hollywood movie, but romantic and fun. Our complete Fourth of July cultural guide 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z An operative banned from the State Department, Sidney Blumenthal, is just an old friend, so Mrs. Clinton used yet another private email account. Even if there wasn’t any sleight of hand, it sure looks bad. When Churches Buy Gulfstreams, Thank The Clinton Foundation 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z That sleight of hand left Common Core advocates and critics frustrated and seems certain to be challenging for teachers. Chris Christie's Common Core Flip Flop 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z As with any player of polyphony, Buckley showed considerable sleight of hand in teasing out parallels and resolving contradictions. William F. Buckley would have loathed Fox News: Inside the right-wing media’s intellectual downfall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z His latest sleight of hand involves Tale of Verve, an unexpected runner-up in the Preakness Stakes who looms as a threat to foil American Pharoah’s Triple Crown bid in the Belmont Stakes on June 6. For Horse Trainer Dallas Stewart, Diamonds in the Rough Are a Specialty 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z More than silver-tongued speeches and sleight of hand, the organization Byers shaped is in need of a new vision. The Vision of Walter Byers, a Flawed Leader, Still Shapes the N.C.A.A. 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z After much trial and error, he devised a mathematical sleight of hand to resolve the problem. The Galaxy-Sized Video Game 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z But Mr. Cotton used a procedural sleight of hand to essentially jump ahead of his colleagues without warning. Tom Cotton’s Procedural Move Interrupts Smooth Sailing for Iran Bill 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z In the light, the whole installation’s sleight of hand became obvious. Enter the labyrinth: getting lost in Door into the Dark 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z It was Tom Watson, not his fellow former Cardinal, Tiger Woods, whose opening-round 73 was a few sleights of hand short of magical. Tiger Woods’s Driving, Usually a Strength, Deserts Him 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Iran is always going to prefer stealth to openness – that is the nature of its leadership – but its ambitions can no longer be masked by sleight of hand and euphemism. Nuclear Agreement With Imperial Iran Is Something, But Not Enough 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z This agreement provided just enough sleight of hand for the Obama national security team to move the goalposts and declare a victory. Obama's Bungled Nuclear Deal 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In addition to technological sleight of hand, they brought in Walker's two younger brothers as stand-ins. After actor's death, 'Furious 7' director drives film to finish 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z To fiscal hawks, that was a sleight of hand too much. Increased Military Spending Wins Out After Dueling Budget Votes in House 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Now I’m not advocating using sleight of hand in tackling the issues at your workplace. This Is Why Great CEOs Are Lazy 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z To achieve their core campaign commitment, Republicans in both houses resorted to a series of sleights of hand. GOP defense hawks, fiscal conservatives battle over budget 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The difficulty concealing all these sleights of hand might explain why Price was in such a hurry to leave his news conference Tuesday. The House GOP budget is a gimmick 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said some think it got there by "sleight of hand." Capitol Hill Buzz: Who has time to read these bills we pass? 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Of course, this is “rhetorical sleight of hand,” Ozeki told the crowd. Zen Buddhism and storytelling merge in novelist’s journey 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Of course, this is "rhetorical sleight of hand," Ozeki told the crowd. Zen Buddhism and storytelling merge in novelist's journey 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Vlasic is among those who believe the highly publicized destruction served as a mere sleight of hand to allow the Islamic State group to capitalize upon the valuable loot it couldn’t easily move. ISIS’ Destruction of Antiques at Mosul, Nimrud Hides Sinister Moneymaking Scheme 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Through sleight of hand and aggressive use of partners and loopholes, Dish turned itself into that very small business, distorting reality and creating an unfair advantage. How Loopholes Transformed Dish Network Into a ‘Very Small Business’ 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z This sleight of hand allows Edison to say, as it told The Times, that it is "not hiring H-1B visa workers to replace displaced employees." A loophole in immigration law is costing thousands of American jobs 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z It is a kind of emotional shorthand—or sleight of hand—by means of which Negroes express not only their relationship to each other but their judgment of the white world. . . . The Elusive Langston Hughes 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Those lopsided results are no accident in a system where elected representatives get to handpick their voters through computer-assisted cartographical sleight of hand. Virginia’s powerless voters 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Even the numbering of the floors was a bit of upwardly mobile sleight of hand, calibrated to enhance the perception of what the developer, the Related Companies, marketed as “Five Star Living.” Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z He was able to eliminate the gasoline subsidy this month and, in a remarkable sleight of hand, lower fuel prices at the pump on the same day. For Indonesians, President’s Political Outsider Status Loses Its Luster 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z For all the emphasis on realism, there is a lot of sleight of hand. A City Run by Children 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z That sleight of hand does not work anymore. Why Closing Vermont Yankee Won't Raise New England's Power Bills 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The bill accomplished this with a linguistic sleight of hand: The initial Bulgarian section of South Stream was not actually a pipeline, but rather a “gas-sea” interconnector. How Putin Forged a Pipeline Deal That Derailed 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z And by what undemocratic, last-minute sleight of hand? Ruth Marcus: The ‘Cromnibus’ isn’t without an upside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z But there is a potentially dangerous sleight of hand—the Skype therapy illusion—in how many who routinely offer such screen relations based treatment talk about the care they endeavor to provide. The 'Skype Therapy Illusion' And The Myth Of Functional Equivalence 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Now they’re both in a place known more for jazz hands than sleight of hand. Broadway-bound magician shows what’s up his sleeve 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z This logistical sleight of hand is largely invisible to consumers but is shaking up the retail industry by allowing it to react more quickly to customer demands. Shipping wars ramp up as retailers fight for your holiday shopping dollars With a little sleight of hand, the cameras were set to video instead of photo and the reactions to the announcement were all caught on film. This Couple Tricked Everyone Into Being in Their Pregnancy Announcement 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z At Taxpayers for Common Sense, we were appalled by that ludicrous attempt at budgetary sleight of hand and began writing and talking about it. Congress Should Look Closely at Pentagon Overseas Funding Requests 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z To Mr. Perdue, all of these attacks are “sleights of hand.” G.O.P. Senate Hopeful Finds Business Résumé Cuts 2 Ways 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z “So whether it’s a card trick or you make that card an iPhone, it’s the same exact sleight of hand. But when you change the object and present it differently, it does become something new.” Broadway-bound magician shows what’s up his sleeve 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z I think it’s the greatest sleight of hand, ever. Krugman's Fed Defense Cashes In On Inflation Confusion 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z And don’t for a second think the Army and the Air Force aren’t paying close attention to this attempt at budgetary sleight of hand. The U.S. Navy's Absurd Attempt to Pass the Buck for Its Next Submarines 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “Masters of Illusion — Believe the Impossible” The live show based on the TV series features levitation, vanishing acts, escapes, comedy magic, sleight of hand and dancers. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Oct. 16-22, 2014. The particular rules, goals, and visual representations are all the sleight of hand that rationalizes prolonged engagement with the the simulacrasphere and the bizarre linearity of its interlocking relationships. How Online Multiplayer Ate The Videogame Industry And Turned The Internet Into A Battlefield 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z He puts Peyton Manning at the top of the list of those who excel at passing’s sleight of hand, along with Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers, San Diego’s Philip Rivers and Seattle’s Russell Wilson. Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins tries to master the art of deception Hopscotch loans amount to a tax sleight of hand where companies use their foreign earnings without technically using them, thus avoiding repatriation taxes. AstraZeneca Hurt As Obama Tries To Get Tough On Tax Inversions 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The situation may require a sleight of hand, suggested Martin Reardon, a former high-ranking counterterrorism official in the FBI, which stopped cooperating with the CIA over torture decade ago. What Will the U.S. Forces Do With ISIS Prisoners? Even though I was centuries ahead of him and not even on the same ferry, I could’ve sworn he’d pulled some sleight of hand that had brought him right next to me. The Teenagers’ View: Students in the 'Girls Write Now' Program Share Their Work And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – dazzle of narrative fireworks 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the government attempts to placate the people with optical sleights of hand. America’s new racial low point: More crying black mothers, and tear gas on our dreams 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z HHS, said such procedural sleight of hand was beside the point. Appeals court rejects constitutional challenge to Obamacare 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Matt Wood of Free Press dismisses AT&T's argument as a "legal sleight of hand," and, in the end, the FCC may well, too. 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