Word: sleight
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...Only these days,” Magid tells The Crimson after last Saturday’s performance, when asked if he thinks his brand of social commentary and sleight-of-hand is unique. “There’s not enough political juggling...
...Michael Moore juiced up the genre by putting his bulky charisma front and center, pestering the powerful and using every trick in the propagandist's (and stand-up comedian's) arsenal to push home his political point. Fahrenheit 9/11 offers a crash course in an artful documentarian's sleight of hand. Five strategies in Moore Method...
...acting successor will be Deputy Director of Intelligence John McLaughlin, a career analyst. It is a cliche to call McLaughlin unassuming and modest; it is more telling to describe him as deeply analytical and alert to the ambiguities of his trade. An amateur magician, he is especially adept at sleight of hand, a skill that helped win him the nickname "Merlin...
Keneally keeps his characters close to home with a brilliantly simple sleight of hand. Though most of his story takes place in the Middle East, he gives his people Anglicized names. Turn the Salims and Adinas into Alans and Louises, and what might have been a tale of the mysterious Other becomes a story of very familiar bureaucrats and professionals seeking to secure a place for themselves. They just happen to be doing it in a world subject to the bloodthirsty caprices of Great Uncle and his cokehead offspring Sonny...
...matter that would never have been addressed in comic form, which is man's relationship with God." Though the concept of a "graphic novel" had been brought up among comix fans during the 1960s, Eisner claims to have to come up with it independently, as a form of spontaneous sleight-of-hand marketing. "[The phrase] 'graphic novel' was kind of accidental," Eisner said. While pitching the book to an important trade-book editor in New York, says Eisner, "a little voice inside me said, 'Hey stupid, don't tell him it?s a comic or he'll hang...