Word: sleight
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With or without pants, Mitnick will continue to work his magic. Whether or not it involves sleight of hand...
...charms that are performed on us, while good, are only sleight of hand—and only partially redeem a plodding movie. Even the spells at the end are occasionally flawed as horrors miraculously reappear to an almost-comical effect. Many will be seduced to sleep without ever realizing that “The Skeleton Key” actually has a little something to offer. This little something is still not quite enough for moviegoers to curse themselves with a $10 ticket, but for those who keep watching, it will conjure goose bumps...
...Damiano was shooting a 10-min. loop, set in a hospital, with Reems as the patient (he has a bandage bow-tied around his ailing member) and Linda as the ministering nurse. Then she performed her sleight-of-throat. As the actor recalled: "I couldn't believe she ate the whole thing!... It was a frightening sensation. My first thought was, 'Will she bring me back alive?'" (Spoken like a smart third banana.) "Gerry's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and the cameraman's jaw brushed his shoes. I think all of us there knew we were present...
Perhaps worse than any sleight of hand in the wording of the ballot questions is the fact that the issue seems part of an orchestrated Republican ploy to summon evangelical voters to the polls in greater numbers in swing states such as Arkansas, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon. It appears that these “values” voters may well have handed George W. Bush the election, but at a cost that transcends a single political victory. The constitutions of 11 states now bear the writ of discrimination, formalized in parchment, despite the fact that gay marriage was unlikely...
...when Harvard rallied and the Bears again needed to move the ball, the Crimson was no longer biting on DiGiacomo’s sleight of hand. His passes fell incomplete and Hartigan was rebuffed...