Sleight may not be an action movie per se, but if you're as wowed by street-level sleight-of-hand as you are expensive CG wizardry, this one should be worth a look.
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Kind of a sleight of hand on Trump's part, right?
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There's a certain auspiciousness around films like Sleight at Sundance.
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Usually a restoration means nothing but sleight of hand skill.
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Only by sleight of hand, using numerical smoke and mirrors.
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My favorite was 60A's "Slight," which becomes "Sleight," or DEXTERITY.
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A daughter, Mary Catherine de Bary Sleight, died in 2010.
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For a while, this gentle sleight of hand is fun.
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Kitrosser: This is linguistic sleight of hand on Sanders' part.
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It's why many of us enjoy surprises, or sleight of hand.
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Then there is the matter of a small sleight of hand.
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And so we pitched them Sleight, which they were very into.
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Magicians use this to distract you from their sleight of hand.
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The ruling is an impressive feat of judicial sleight of hand.
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This sleight of hand is needed for the movie to work.
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Producing each design requires its own kind of sleight of hand.
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It's obvious that Lee's argument rests on a sleight of hand.
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For the most part, she succeeds with this sleight of hand.
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Axe thought he was playing poker; Taylor was performing sleight of hand.
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Mystery demonstrates a sleight-of-hand trick in Toronto on August 28.
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Basco worked with a magician to learn some sleight of hand tricks.
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But there is considerable popular support for Mr Modi's sleight of hand.
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Networks want ratings, which sometimes translates into using cheap sleight of hand.
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Now, this was a bit of sleight of hand on Phil's part.
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" Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke labeled the measures "budgetary sleight of hand.
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A similar sleight of retrieval may protect perpetrators of abuse, experts say.
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This is all part of the sleight of hand of Couples Therapy.
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Instead there was a lot of slicing and dicing sleight of hand.
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"Relationships are getting frosty with our customers right now," Mr. Sleight said.
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For that sleight, McLean went to town on Bradshaw and decked him.
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I reached out to Teller, famed magician and master of sleight of hand.
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They also might watch Gagliardi perform some magical sleight of hand with quarters.
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There's obviously just a bit of storytelling sleight of hand going on here.
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The approach drew isolated claims of budgetary sleight of hand during floor debate.
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When it takes a turn midway through, though, Sleight becomes something else altogether.
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Other teaser videos echoed this idea, too, though with less sleight of hand.
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Check out the video ... Kanye looked totally baffled by White's sleight of hand.
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Sleight of hand and political chicanery is par for the course for them.
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He met Reagan's sleight-of-hand "youth and inexperience" response with prolonged laughter.
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Of course, legislative sleight-of-hand takes place at every level of government.
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Who's to say it's sleight-of-hand if we all see it happen?
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The magician Richard Turner is dedicated to wowing audiences with sleight of hand.
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And Microsoft's Xbox One launched with its own sleight of Xbox-only games.
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Pregnancy is its own magic, but not the wondrous sleight of hand variety.
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The "Sleight" director started at J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot as a receptionist.
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This was not the case, however — just a bit of screenshot sleight of hand.
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There are a couple of things to unpack from the sleight of hand here.
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We just wanted to make sure Sleight was the best that it could be.
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Berenson's Twitter feed exposes the statistical sleight of hand that runs throughout his book.
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Her stories might be short but that is sleight of hand; they demand focus.
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Yet, the final few scenes of "0 Hours" confirms that was sleight of hand.
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What Page was doing each year was something of a philanthropic sleight of hand.
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For first-timers, Tian's sleight-of-hand illusion is as infuriating as it is entertaining.
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But Stein says there's no secret or sleight of hand in the work he does.
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Recently, I watched David Kwong do some sleight of hand in a crowded theater lobby.
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As Sleight is being called a superhero origin story, we completely see and understand that.
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The Commission's proposal performs a historical sleight of hand that impermissibly conflates this fundamental distinction.
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"The dollar does affect things and you have to take it into consideration," said Sleight.
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It seems there's something similar going on with the characters and the world of Sleight.
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The symbol, now appearing as authorial sleight of hand, determines the rest of the story.
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The Road's authentic vignettes exist thanks to a sleight of hand by its film-maker.
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This is a film that generates much of its suspense through genre sleight of hand.
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At some level, we are all growing familiar with this kind of sleight of hand.
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Fantasy and reality are also blurred deftly, with full-body equivalents of sleight-of-hand.
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But all of that narrative sleight-of-hand led viewers to have to think like Hosts.
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The Bagger submits that a better term might be Glaringly Obvious Sleight of Hand, or GOSH.
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Berlin spied in positive liberty an intellectual sleight of hand which could be exploited for harm.
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It's a smart, realistic twist on the usual teen hero, and Sleight pulls it off confidently.
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When magicians skillfully trick audiences by way of masterful dexterity, it's called a sleight of hand.
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Trump seems to be using a similar sleight of hand with regard to the pharmaceutical industry.
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But you eventually came to realize (I hope) that sleight-of-hand can deceive the mind.
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U.S. leaders should keep a close eye on Russian President Vladimir Putin's cyber sleight of hand.
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But in a sleight of hue, everyone in the image appears to have similar skin tone.
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She's especially proud of the sleight-of-hand move in which she makes a card disappear.
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Activism matters on this issue because the Republican position is based on a sleight of hand.
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The Trump administration has engaged in a sleight of hand to create the 22-1 ratio.
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With a hustler's spirit and some sleight of hand, he made it, but not in total.
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This lexical sleight of hand reinvigorates the san-seriffed text, showing enthusiasm, without sounding like a psycho.
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It's a sleight of hand that's enough to make someone shut off everything just to be safe.
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LA County firefighter Kevin Sleight extinguishes hot spots while battling the fire on Sunday, September 22017, 20173.
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In a sort of workplace sleight-of-hand, the prospect of perpetual long weekends keeps people motivated.
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Blumhouse's BH Tilt label released "Sleight" in 20143 theaters, and saw a weekend gross of $1.7 million.
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The advance PR calls Sleight a superhero origin story, but is that how you think of it?
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It would be an interesting and strange conversation to add that kind of financial scale to Sleight.
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Sleight is bringing some of these superhero pieces down to the most elemental, face-value, practical level.
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The sleight of hand lies in the language that the administration is using to construct its case.
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Through his sly sleight of hand, Blas exposes how the internet virtually annihilates the distance between things.
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This sleight of hand is consistent with statements Copeland has made regarding her own relationship to geography.
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When the Red Sox were 35-15, that was real—it wasn't luck, nor sleight of hand.
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"Making this about semantics is a sleight of hand," privacy researcher Julia Powles tweeted at the time.
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Claims that the Clean Power Plan would raise electricity costs rely on a rhetorical sleight-of-hand.
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A Taste of Magic (Friday) Would you like a side of sleight of hand with that burger?
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A Taste of Magic (Saturday) Would you like a side of sleight of hand with that burger?
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A TASTE OF MAGIC (Saturday) Would you like a side of sleight of hand with that burger?
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As if by sleight of hand, it is transformed into, influenced by, revisited, given a new twist.
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Ned's death is the catalyst for the whole series, but it's also a sleight-of-hand trick.
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He was good: No matter how hard I looked, I could not catch his sleight of hand.
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Some will see the distinction between white nationalism and white supremacy as a semantic sleight of hand.
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There's a thoughtfulness to the way Sucker Punch is constructed that justifies the marketing sleight of hand.
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"These networks do a really good job of redirecting and doing a sleight of hand," says Allen.
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But I don't think what I'm doing is a veneer or a trick or sleight of hand.
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Yet that same sleight of hand could make a big difference in the fight against global warming.
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A New Yorker, he contrived to channel the frustrations of the heartland, a remarkable sleight of hand.
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I wanted to escape the fate of femaleness in the only way I could: by sleight of hand.
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Sleight is the managing editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, an invaluable resource for the genre community.
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It's a neat bit of sleight of hand that updates a seemingly exhausted story for a new era.
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They were sure to open the package to show that no sleight of hand occurred along the way.
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More tricks, illusions, sleight of hand and seemingly deft feats of mental telepathy were interspersed throughout the night.
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"They're actively looking for alternative suppliers," said Sleight, who just returned from a trip to Mexico last week.
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The very last thing I want to be is gullible, fooled by parlor tricks or sleight of hand.
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Dylan's work remains utterly lacking in conventionality, moral sleight of hand, pop pabulum or sops to his audience.
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"There's something maddeningly brilliant about this promotional sleight of hand," Lee wrote in the Guardian at the time.
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The strategy, known among tax practitioners as a "stock-for-debt swap," relies on mathematical sleight of hand.
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The real-world link between rhetorical sleight of hand and power needs, instead, to be explored and exposed.
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It was a bit of a geographic sleight of hand, a fantasy, but that was also the product.
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Warren and other consumer advocates argued that payday lenders built their industry on a similar sleight of hand.
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German Member of the European Parliament Niklas Nienass has likened its "sleight of hand" to a magic trick.
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Many economists believe Beijing uses a combination of policy and statistical sleight-of-hand to achieve steady results.
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" Thus, a semantic sleight of hand was necessary, he said: "We developed this concept of 'not so tall.
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Understanding that sleight of hand — and calling attention to it — offers the best hope for defeating the bill.
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"God Walks Into Abar" reveals just how much the previous treatment of their marriage was sleight of hand.
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Not your traditional rabbit-in-hat sleight of hand, but a disappearing act that was far more grand.
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It's been a sleight of hand morally that has robbed him of his previously high standing in my head.
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This isn't any mere collection of cover art, either: it will be written by Adam Roberts and Graham Sleight.
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This course covers basic card and coin tricks, street magic, and sleight of hand taught by a professional magician.
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We need to force Google's sleight-of-hand business model into the light and to prohibit it by law.
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I later sorted out all the input data and realized she had hoodwinked me—a conversational sleight of hand.
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With its new cybersecurity law taking effect on June 1, China has pulled a slick legislative sleight of hand.
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The Wall Street Journal substantiates what many have suspected all along; Chinese banks are using accounting sleight of hand.
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Some of these waivers have gone to major oil companies in a sleight of hand move by the EPA.
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A TASTE OF MAGIC (Friday and Saturday) Would you like a side of sleight of hand with that burger?
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Only after the movie ends do you understand what Debra Granik, with a consummate sleight of hand, has done.
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This is the legal sleight of hand that has allowed Barr to proclaim that Trump will not be charged.
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And there is a lot of sleight of hand in the cluing, making for a very pleasant Friday outing.
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At Christian Dior, the first woman to run the house, Maria Grazia Chiuri, performed a deceptive sleight of hand.
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This deliberate sleight demonstrates the caste-like system deployed by Google, which fails to protect its workers and our colleagues.
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We wouldn't want it to be so big that we betray what the DNA of Sleight is to begin with.
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If you saw the behind-the-scenes images of Sleight, it'd really remind you of making movies in high school.
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It helps patients regain dexterity, gives them new skills and boosts self-esteem by teaching them sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Policy is complicated, yet post-truth politics damns complexity as the sleight of hand experts use to bamboozle everyone else.
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The IRS's sleight-of-hand—substituting "free filing" for "return-free filing" as required by the law—hasn't gone unnoticed.
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The sleight of hand "The Good Liar" tries to pull off might be easier to keep hidden on the page.
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The manual was written long before Patterson entered politics, but any candidate would recognize the wisdom of sleight of hand.
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But I can understand the concern: whenever Trump talks sense rather than erupting over some sleight, his numbers go up.
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Peace has been maintained in spite of Pyongyang's countless lethal attacks, threats and Seoul-sponsored sleight of hand summit shows.
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Like a magician at a birthday party, their tax reform framework uses distraction to achieve a sleight of hand trick.
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Tape, markers, elastic sleeves and maybe even paint will disguise some shoe brand logos in an Olympic sleight of foot.
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He stressed, however, that it's necessary they follow a sleight-of-hand approach to dealing with undocumented immigrants going forward.
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Romance, I have since learned, isn't just a sleight of hand that can make you see something that isn't there.
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This is where the sleight of hand of turning stories of immigrant success into the story of America becomes dangerous.
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But critics have long charged that much of that expansion was built on budgetary sleight of hand, cronyism and corruption.
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The World Cup is a circus, and what is a circus if not illusion, and distraction, and sleight of hand?
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This sleight of hand gave Hoover's F.B.I. its peculiar character, at once a respected investigative body and a personal fief.
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Oh, O.K., if you insist, I'll connect it to "Hamilton": ■ 10D: Thursdays are for thematic sleight-of-hand and wordplay!
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Anyone who thought autocracy would arrive with back-room deals or sleight-of-hand machinations at midnight should think again.
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But if they do, they will almost certainly rely on a political sleight of hand to disguise their bill's damage.
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Johnson's own sleight of hand is estimable, even if his effort to add politics into the crowded mix rings hollow.
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The officials received a somewhat frosty reception in Mexico, said Thomas Sleight, chief executive officer of the U.S. Grains Council.
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Because she's keenly aware of when Trump is pulling a sleight of hand and when he's proffering a genuine sentiment.
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Yet the real sleight of hand is how Zuckerberg glosses over the fact that ads can be relevant without being creepy.
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These glitched-out playing cards designed by Soleil Zumbrunn remind players of the real life-glitching effects of sleight-of-hand.
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Exchanging that for easy thrills and sleight-of-hand tricks feels like a quick, boring victory after a long, worthy buildup.
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Kranstz said some adjustments would have to be made but with some "sleight of frog" they could totally pull it off.
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So Republicans have really prevailed by using a political sleight of hand in the Senate to influence the Supreme Court bench.
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That last bit is a cosmological sleight of hand that sends AIG's history of the world into the realm of kitsch.
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A classic profile in a 1993 issue of "The New Yorker" detailed Ricky's sleight of hand mastery -- specifically with card tricks.
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But it's already clear that Johnson is a young filmmaker who has outgrown this particular bit of cinematic sleight of hand.
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To this end, I am gradually removing the tricks that use a lot of difficult sleight-of-hand from my repertoire.
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Schumer's sleight of hand acts as a defense of the company's strategy, making him out of step with his own party.
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Anti-borders politicians have perfected a form of linguistic sleight of hand that shields them from criticism for their radical views.
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Crossword-solving pushes our "thrill of the hunt" button, as we struggle to understand a clue involving linguistic sleight-of-hand.
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With the flourish of a sleight-of-hand master, she presented a card painted with Setting Plaster, a warm brownish pink.
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Using sleight of hand, he distracts you so that you can't track the right shell and know where the penny is.
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His sinister sleight of hand is that he attempts to make those who call out his nefariousness the purveyors of enmity.
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The political slights and sleight of hand by outgoing Chairman Tom Wheeler are hard to forget, and perhaps harder to forgive.
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Lohse and Molina practiced sleight of hand seven innings at a time, with strategies founded on an understanding of Lohse's weaknesses.
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You half expect the sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay to appear in a tuxedo, expounding on the history of dice.
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Faux crawfish, ersatz shrimp: They're less a matter of alchemy and transfiguration than sleight of hand in a circle of sawdust.
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Calling for enforcement that punishes companies that hire undocumented immigrants, rather than the immigrants themselves, is a cruel sleight of hand.
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This sleight of hand lets Diller distract from the role he might have played in an industry with a rampant problem.
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It was a sleight of hand characteristic of Asia's shrewdest veteran politician — and it left Malaysians breathless from the political machinations.
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But we're less forgiving with charities, which we expect to be both philanthropists and educators, untainted by marketing sleight of hand.
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The crisis prompted the onetime accountant to engage in some financial sleight-of-hand and to introduce products, including the Reggie!
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A man came through the ward, dressed as a clown, and performed sleight-of-hand tricks, making coins appear and disappear.
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I feel like, if they can achieve that sort of sleight of hand in the '80s, then we could do it now.
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That fine print raises the question of whether the FBI was using some sleight of hand to gain access to users' data.
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And lawyers were appalled when the BJP used procedural sleight-of-hand to rush through parliament a bill giving Aadhaar legal status.
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Is this some editorial sleight-of-hand to make audiences wonder just how bad things are really going to get for Skywalker?
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It involves baiting a mob teen, a plant of a card dealer, lightning fast sleight of hand, and the deed to Pop's.
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Somewhat shockingly for a film this assured, Sleight is J.D. Dillard's first feature film; we should hope it won't be his last.
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They are the reason we have Sleight, a story about a street magician who seems to have tapped into some actual superpowers.
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Though magicians can perform tricks with sleight of hand, many also rely on a vast array of secret tools and modified props.
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These folks will not, one presumes, be accepting of the economic sleight of hand that these new modern Democratic leaders are proposing.
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This sleight of hand runs the risk that troops overseas, at some point, could be deprived of some resources, at least temporarily.
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His very English ironies do not scour or scathe, like Evelyn Waugh's; instead, by a charitable sleight of hand, they offer consolation.
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Through a rhetorical sleight of hand, the incomplete prevention of gun deaths through tighter restrictions has become an argument to do nothing.
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Yet they are presented in a manner that again, in a conceptual sleight of hand, borrows more from artistic than scientific display.
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A mentalist, you see, performs small, intimate tricks and employs more sleight-of-hand tricks with skilled memory and body language-reading techniques.
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For many consumers, the real magic of the holiday season is the sleight of hand it takes to hide overspending from their spouse.
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"Étants Donnés" (1946–66) was the final and most beguiling puzzle created by an artist who reveled in subterfuge and sleight of hand.
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Director J.D. Dillard was a receptionist at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company when he started planning Sleight with co-writer Alex Theurer.
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And if you read between the lines in Sleight, there's enough evidence that we're not fully falling into the trope, I would hope.
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Mr. Trump and others in this election have performed a sleight of hand that makes their own narcissistic anger look like a revolution.
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" And then, with seeming sleight of hand, it states that "individuals and firms can be registered as brokers or investment advisors — or both.
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That sleight of hand is sure to have done some of the heavy lifting of attracting people over to Netflix after the game.
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Since then, Study 329 has become one of the best-known examples of a piece of academic sleight-of-hand called "outcome switching".
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He worked in restaurants, performing sleight-of-hand tricks for diners, and eventually he expanded into private parties, trade shows, and cruise ships.
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As with the name, the sleight of hand was interpreted not as a nod to tradition, but as a slap in the face.
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At worst it's a publicly-played-out sleight-of-hand exchange to finalize a nefarious quid pro quo between Trump and the Russians.
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Sure enough, 50A is DEADWE — crossing, at the end, SLEIGHT (or "Dexterity") at 44D, and borrowing that entry's EIGHT to complete the trick.
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But when it comes to the hardest obstacles, sometimes even sleight of hand falls short, said Andrew Feldman, an associate broker with Triplemint.
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But the team liked the idea of a grand arrival, so the walk-in has been preserved — with a little sleight of hand.
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The sleight-of-hand transactions reduced profits in the United States and left them in places like Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands.
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But when a magician draws your attention in one direction, it usually means some sleight-of-hand is happening where you're not looking.
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Right from the start, magic has played a key role in Thingamajig's clue packages, but that's a clever bit of sleight of hand.
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Despite promising to hold spending growth below 28500 percent, Cuomo has only been able to claim this through a budget sleight of hand.
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Their main sleight of hand was not to specify the number of shares to be issued for the conversion of the government debt.
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DeHaan plays Lockhart, a workaholic Wall Streeter (are there any other kind in movies?) whose bosses catch him pulling some ethical sleight-of-hand.
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The magician Ricky Jay, considered by many the greatest sleight-of-hand artist alive, is also a scholar, a historian, a collector of curiosities.
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Despite this narrative not-so-sleight of hand, Bump's ending still manages to be unexpected and unromantic, while containing so much love and hope.
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So the implication is the same: with a little legislative sleight of hand, end-to-end encryption is made to stand outside the law.
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There's got to be some subtle sleight-of-hand involved in there somewhere, but we'd be lying if we said we can spot it.
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That experiential sleight of hand was so effective due to the writing approach and the performance techniques the Deep Dive team has been exploring.
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" U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Tom Sleight issued a statement that said the trade group welcomes the government's "move on this critical issue.
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The Initial Assassination Scheme When you get to the end of Bodyguard, it becomes clear a lot of the series was sleight of hand.
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A movie about magicians, filmmakers, and a mutual love for a well-performed sleight-of-hand, The Prestige is more enjoyable on repeated viewings.
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The result is Sleight, a clever South LA adventure that plays out like the origin story of a Tony Stark-type self-built superhero.
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TWD earns those emotional pay-offs you mention, but "East" was like watching a crappy magician try to pull off some sleight of hand.
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"This deliberate sleight demonstrates the caste-like system deployed by Google, which fails to protect its workers and our colleagues," the coalition spokesperson said.
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Gil Troy, in his book "See How They Ran," captures the sleight-of-hand that Nixon deployed to finally land the job in 1968.
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But Mr. Favreau could also have been describing the way Walt Disney Studios used marketing sleight of hand to fill seats on opening weekend.
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The subsequent report to Congress making this certification was marked "For Official Use Only" and seen by many as a bureaucratic sleight of hand.
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Whereas Trump does angry and impetuous to a tee, Iran's theocratic leaders are masters in the art of the ambiguity and sleight of hand.
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Developers are digging deeper for taller ceilings, installing full length windows and using clever sleight of hand — in the market for a photo studio?
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This type of architecture might be a necessary spatial change responding to the times, but it is, nonetheless, also a nifty sleight of hand.
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That digital sleight of hand is great for inquisitive readers, but bad for the publishers that are increasingly dependent on subscription dollars for survival.
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The shorthand transforms racism, something an aggressor does, into race, something the target is, in a sleight of hand that is easy to miss.
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Republican advocates of this proposed sleight-of-hand like to sell it as a benefit for small businesses, freelancers and moonlighters — the middle class.
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The digital sleight of hand is known as Rickrolling and is often used as a humorous and benign way to demonstrate serious security flaws.
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Godmode artist LoveLeo, who recently achieved viral fame for his song "Boyfren," first caught Sylvester&aposs eye doing sleight of hand tricks on TikTok.
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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.
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Most longer-serving senators still regret the gutting of the filibuster on executive nominees and the sleight-of-hand Reid used to do it.
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When the saleswoman turned her back, the man used sleight of hand to pocket a bracelet or shove a cashmere sweater down his pants.
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And because it's all close-up, sleight of hand magic, you can't just assume a team of hidden assistants are making it all happen backstage.
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Users don't march in lockstep from one thing to the next, and no amount of engineering or sleight-of-hand is going to change that.
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Getting all the classes for the price of two is a marketing sleight-of-hand that can make you forget that one is pretty pricey.
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His public mathematics lectures could easily be mistaken for magic shows, but there's no sleight of hand, no hidden compartments, no trick deck of cards.
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Just take a look at this incriminating evidence: Honestly, if Frazier can pull off that kind of sleight-of-hand, the man earned that out.
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In fact, you may not even have heard of them — movies like J.D. Dillard's biohacking superhero movie Sleight, or Steven Caple, Jr.'s The Land.
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For the United States, the same can be said: Are China's latest moves a signal of cooperation or is China playing a sleight of hand?
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And so being alive is a kind of sleight of hand trick, where you know death could be coming, but you also don't really know.
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They will be performing sleight of hand using products like Charlotte's Magic Cream Treat & Transform Moisturizer ($2575) and magicking up chocolate lips and lipstick samples.
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Still, some residents held out for a last-minute sleight-of-hand, hoping Irma would stay off the coast as it did near Puerto Rico.
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Ultimately, though, the reason to read this compelling and hypnotic novel is not the execution of the plot or the sleight-of-hand final revelation.
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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.
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Machkovech said he juggled veggies, rearranged bunches of bananas, and even swapped items behind his back, hoping his sleight of hand might overwhelm the cameras.
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The worst example of this budgetary sleight-of-hand would force nearly 85033,000 American businesses to pay taxes on money that might not even have.
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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.
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As a result, the Grains Council may dial back plans made during China's investigation to find more buyers in other countries for U.S. sorghum, Sleight said.
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There's some statistical sleight of hand in those figures, since much of the illegal capacity that is being closed was never counted in the first place.
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On the political sleight of hand that seeks to makeover illegal "mass surveillance" as apparently acceptable "bulk collection in six specific circumstances," Schrems is especially scathing.
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India's Supreme Court ought to look unkindly on such legal sleight of hand, which would allow any other state to be similarly conjured out of existence.
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Tipping has an edge to him, as does JD Dillard, whose directorial debut Sleight wowed Sundance audiences and will hit theaters next spring courtesy of Blumhouse.
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The Void uses design sleight of hand and misdirection to guide guests through relatively small physical spaces that feel massive and epic in the virtual world.
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Sleight is a rare animal: an intimate coming-of-age drama for grown-ups starring a black teenager that doubles as a cool superhero origin story.
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Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice.
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But the Panama Papers also evoked the newest chapter in a wider continental struggle, played out this time in hidden dealings and sleight-of-hand bookkeeping.
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It's about the sleight-of-hand that swaps out an extremely difficult task (becoming a guitar virtuoso) for one that's significantly less difficult, but still challenging.
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This sleight of hand may soothe the conscience of industry leaders and policy makers, but it distracts us from what is needed to address the problem.
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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.
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That makes sense when you think about the phrase "sleight of hand," which refers to magicians like our friend, David Kwong: The Across clues, of course.
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The result, which replaces Moncler's Gamme Rouge and Gamme Bleu high-fashion lines, was part art installation, part political opportunism, and all fashion sleight-of-hand.
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He is a master of illusion, and he is taking the opportunity to appear to be concerned with integrity using a clever rhetorical sleight-of-hand.
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Two surgeries, one titanium plate, and seven screws later, the book has just been published, and Jay is back to polishing his sleight-of-hand chops.
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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.
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Critic's notebook In its sixth year on Broadway, "The Illusionists" serves up familiar routines, but two smaller shows deliver egghead charm and brainy sleight-of-hand.
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Yet if delusion can elevate the trivial to the top of cable news, why couldn't it perform the same sleight of hand for the actually important?
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Weisberg and Fields have turned the smallest possible stakes (will this marriage survive?) into the largest possible ones through narrative sleight of hand, and it's brilliant.
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Because Hollywood is not actually getting away with their sleight of hand, making us believe progress is happening when it's more of the same old, same old.
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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.
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Sleight is sort of like super-low-budget Iron Man, if Tony Stark were just a kid trying to make some neat gadgets to impress his friends.
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Master magician Ricky Jay -- known for being one of the greatest sleight of hand artists of all time -- has reportedly died in Los Angeles of natural causes.
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From a writing point of view, it's been funny to see some reviews of Sleight pop out, and obviously we have no experience at all with that.
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I paused, not clear if the model-slash-actress types hired to hawk goods at CES truly deserve the sleight once reserved for scantily clad Playboy Bunnies.
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Mr. Retelny's argument that the legislation will "deprive" institutional investors of unbiased information from proxy firms is little more than a piece of linguistic sleight of hand.
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Sure, it's sleight of hand, but at least Mr. Ford made his audience complicit in the trick instead of casting them in the role of the sucker.
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And so he took the occasion to submit a bid in the war over judicial power, confident that his partisan adversaries would overlook the sleight of hand.
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It wasn't something you were ever supposed to hear, a kind of musical sleight-of-hand trick designed to make subtle corrections and perfect a singer's pitch.
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In a well-practiced sleight of hand, the cashier had double-bagged in plastic a dozen eggs, which were already encased in two protective layers of plastic.
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Conner's brand of hippieish Dada distorts world-historical destruction into an entrancing phantasmagoria, a sleight of hand that can't help but seem all the more ominous today.
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Norment argued that McAuliffe's order is unconstitutional and a "political sleight of hand" that primarily sought political gain without properly considering the consequences of a blanket restoration.
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"Soup to nuts: corn, dairy, meat, specialty products, fruit — they're all pretty much gathered together," said Tom Sleight, president and chief executive of the U.S. Grains Council.
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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.
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It's borderline impossible to track what parameters each section of a drum controls, even if you wanted to—dizzy a game of sleight of hand and misdirection.
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The mysteriously delicate, potato-y puffs seem like they must be the result of some sort of sleight of hand—not a pedestrian, step-by-step recipe.
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Vondrousova finished the first set with a defensive lob that left Konta flat-footed, then sealed the match with a dropshot played with a magician's sleight of hand.
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"Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice," Amash said.
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The most absurd statistic he cited was the 94 million people out of the labor force, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that suggests a catastrophically-high unemployment rate.
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"Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice," he said.
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But these jokes also function as a sleight of hand; she hyperbolizes her own celebrity to such a degree that her audience is actually encouraged to downplay it.
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But all that pales in comparison to the amount of narrative sleight of hand and fragmented storytelling that the second season finale squeezes into its 90-minute runtime.
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Of course, there is always the option that the challenge itself is just another ruse; a misdirect from a creative team that's known for its sleight of hand.
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Like watching a crappy magician try to pull off some sleight of hand That's not to mention that there's just a single episode left to go this season.
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While Angela is getting in position for the femtocell drop, we see Darlene break into a hotel room using a combination of wigs, gadgets, and sleight of hand.
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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.
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The fun here is in searching for potential telltale clues and fake-outs as he casually ambles his way from sleight-of-hand flimflam to pseudo-telepathic reads.
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Had Citizens United turned out differently, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), with just an administrative sleight of hand, could have constitutionally placed Wolff's publisher in the agency's crosshairs.
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Artificial intelligence may not be magic, but Facebook does have one thing in common with magicians: the sleight of hand needed to divert the eyes of the audience.
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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.
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It doesn't take much time in the factories that made Trump's own garments for the candidate's promise on trade to be confirmed as another salesman's sleight of hand.
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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.
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And as the reform plan progresses through the legislative process, I hope our lawmakers will reject the all too common budget gimmicks of paying through sleight of hand.
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Kim says his interest in mechanical keyboards stems not from gaming, but from a lifelong fascination with dexterous tasks, from physical puzzles to sleight-of-hand magic tricks.
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In the decade of growing his following, King's "digital sleight of hand" videos have included tricks like reaching through phone screens, turning inatimate objects into food, and more.
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Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, took exception to the bill adding to the national debt while using budgetary sleight of hand. 2.
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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.
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She provocatively plants a high-heeled foot on a sofa, revealing her stockings and garter belt and turning a clichéd glamor shoot into sleight-of-hand erotic dominance.
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Ultimately, Villeneuve has engaged in a bit of sleight of hand, using what can be sold as a science-fiction premise to probe questions regarding our priorities -- and humanity.
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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.
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The 26-year-old self-taught magician, who was born in Canada and currently lives in Acton, Massachusetts, wowed audiences through sleight of hand magic and close-up tricks.
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But the MasterClass sleight-of-hand also covers up the total length of its videos, which is nothing like the length of time you'd get in that college course.
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"No amount of legislative sleight of hand will change the fact that the primary motivation here is to pursue a social agenda by targeting Planned Parenthood," the group said.
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SLEIGHT OF HAND: The Hill's Julian Hattem reports: A prominent Republican senator is accusing Clinton of planning a speech on the Supreme Court to distract from the emails probe.
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He'll perform everything from small sleight-of-hand tricks to stage-enveloping illusions, and make "a live goldfish come out of an iPod Touch," according to a news release.
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That sleight of hand means that cutting emissions by 25-30%, as Russia committed to achieve by 2030, requires virtually no reduction from today's less industrial levels (see chart).
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The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is a bit of rhetorical sleight-of-hand that depends on treating Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish people everywhere.
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D.L. Hughley isn't giving President Trump an ounce of credit for letting Alice Johnson out of prison, 'cause he says it amounts to nothing more than sleight of hand.
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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.
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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.
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One favorite sleight of hand from the plan's supporters is to talk only about the provisions that help the middle class and conveniently fail to mention the other parts.
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"The reason to read this compelling and hypnotic novel is not the execution of the plot or the sleight-of-hand final revelation," Ruth Ware writes in her review.
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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.
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Amid the horror and depravity of Auschwitz, Prisoner A-1676 taught A-1828 some simple card sleight of hand, both of them in their striped uniforms on the bunk.
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No sleight of hand here, as Colorado voters had the first-hand experience with long-term payday lending and inadequate reforms — and chose a 36 percent rate cap instead.
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"Legislators who care about the integrity of the budgeting process should not support this budgetary sleight-of-hand," former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote in a 2015 blog post.
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But the research by Custeel showed that officials pulled a sleight of hand in making that declaration — many of the cuts were to plants that had already been idle.
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Some ivory sellers readily admit that such sleight-of-hand occurred, blaming unscrupulous traders while casting themselves as collateral damage in the struggle to contain the illegal wildlife trade.
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There's no sleight of hand — the first endnote occurs on page one — and the casual reader and academic alike should enjoy the ride, and will likely learn a lot.
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None of these facts are tainted by the sleight-of-hand quasi-intellect one might find in a cable drama, bereft with high-minded ideas, wooden characters, and casual racism.
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Sleight — When a magic-loving high-schooler finds himself the sole caretaker of his young sister, he uses his powers of illusion to become a player in the drug game.
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Vegas can seem like a place that generates income out of the air, but the magic is more the result of relentless planning and hard work than sleight of hand.
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And so, in a Thursday evening debate, the state's agricultural commissioner used some rhetorical sleight of hand to make it sound as if he had never been a Trump critic.
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In other words, Apple's enforcement, which caused tech's biggest platforms to follow suit, was something of a content moderation sleight of hand — a cosmetic change rather than an actual deletion.
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Maritess Zurbano, a veteran magician of 23 years, cut her teeth in Las Vegas, grinding it out as a black jack dealer, then doing sleight of hand tricks for tips.
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Tom Sleight, president and chief executive of the U.S. Grains Council, confirmed on Tuesday that the group had asked the Chinese commerce ministry to review the tariffs, per China's rules.
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The sleight of hand could be pulled off in Europe—where diesel cars account for half of all new vehicles bought—only because emission standards there have been so lax.
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" Teller, half of the magician duo Penn & Teller, wrote: "To see one of his shows was to luxuriate in past and present, choice, witty language and dazzling sleight of hand.
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One reason it was so successful was a marketing sleight of hand: Artisan, a company later acquired by Lionsgate, led audiences to believe that the gruesome events had actually happened.
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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.
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Then if they were really only pretending to have changed positions through a rhetorical sleight of hand, new takes would come out defending Democrats against the charge of ideological betrayal.
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There the most rational approach was to stress speed and production over accuracy and quality — and deal with the occasional inspector with some sleight of hand and greasing of palm.
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With a little sleight of hand, Mr. van Zweden has moved the requisite start-of-season gala into early October; it's a Beethoven program with the superstar pianist Lang Lang.
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After his big AGT win, Lim, who calls retired magic star Lance Burton his idol, looks to wow fans with even bigger close-up tricks and more sleight of hand moves.
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Washington could use the move as the ultimate sleight of hand as it seeks to gain leverage over Canada and Mexico in talks to update the 24-year-old trade pact.
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A part of me hopes that Sleight takes place within a shared cinematic universe that also contains the Now You See magic thief franchise, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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He's going to keep tweeting about every sleight and alleged offense, from Hamilton controversies to unflattering Saturday Night Live sketches to the untold thousands of protests and articles and taunts forthcoming.
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The appeals court "used shameful sophistry and sleight of hand to effectively deny millions of Californians their constitutional right to bear firearms in public for self-defence", the interest group groused.
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It is a bit of brilliant sleight of hand that officials can use by delegating the hard work to civil servants who will often use such funds for their own devices.
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During the NewFronts, Hulu and many other companies, often using a rhetorical sleight of hand, put forth the idea that ads are the products of symbiotic relationships, rather than frustrating invaders.
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Rousseff is accused of using money owed to state banks to bolster spending during an election year in 2014, a budgetary sleight of hand employed by many elected officials in Brazil.
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Section 199A stands as a good example of what happens when political expediency and parliamentary sleight of hand take precedence over doing the hard, often difficult work of crafting good legislation.
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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.
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On Monday, Mr. Vizcarra argued that Congress's sleight of hand constituted a de facto vote of no confidence, giving him the right to shut down the legislature and call new elections.
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The 2621-minute production, which is geared toward theatergoers 26600 and older, employs sleight of hand, audience participation and shifting chronology as it weaves a mesmerizing spell all its own. wildrence.
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J.P. 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.
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But it had all been sleight of hand, a U.S. attorney's office investigation later found: Agency workers had come up with ways to "manipulate" the numbers, rather than actually fix apartments.
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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting, and Variety has confirmed, that Lucasfilm is developing a Star Wars project with J. D. Dillard, the director of Sleight, and Luke Cage writer Matt Owens.
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Nesbo is a master at this narrative sleight of hand, and if you can stand the gory details and hang on during the switchback turns, the payoff is its own reward.
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The six jugglers are experts of timing and force, doing math with their bodies to keep balls in the air, sometimes shifting trajectories and catches with a magician's sleight of hand.
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Alongside his study of hypnotism, Brown began to teach himself sleight-of-hand tricks with cards, and soon he was earning extra money by giving walk-around performances at local restaurants.
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Jay's passion for Buchinger dates back half a century, to when he was an up-and-coming teenage sleight-of-hand artist who was already obsessed with the history of conjuring.
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Playlist: "Bugs" / "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" / "Sometimes" / "Do the Evolution" / "Light Years" / "Of the Girl" / "Sleight of Hand" / "Grievance" / "Can't Keep" / "Help Help" Spotify | Apple Music David Anthony is on Twitter.
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However, Dagens Naeringsliv reported that these numbers were artificially inflated according to Arthur Sund, the former head of business intelligence at Tidal, whose team noticed the sleight of hand the following day.
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But unpredictable notes of poignancy-going-on-doominess — whose verso can be a momentary touch of ecstasy — anchor the poem in unmistakable sincerity despite the accent on wit and sleight-of-hand.
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DCLA's records show that in fiscal years 2017 and 13, it increased one-time funding to the smaller CIGs by 12% and the larger CIGs by 6%, a similar sleight-of-hand.
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Pareidolia — which could also be called the art of seeing faces in unusual places (Jesus in a tree trunk or a taco) — suggests some kind of trickery or artistic sleight-of-hand.
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Last weekend's victory over Leslie Smith wasn't just a fight, it was the culmination of a long slog through professional disappointment, promotional sleight-of-hand, unfair fights, even slander and character assassination.
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There is perhaps an argument to be made that by defeating a prophesied, apocalyptic enemy with a literal sleight of hand from one of the smallest heroes works on a thematic level.
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That wouldn't last, though, as the shot went to replay assessment, where officials realized the error of their ways (tricky sleight-of-glove movements), and ruled the shot to be a goal.
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It's absolutely true that hackers and bad actors pose a risk to elections, but it's exceptionally difficult to pull off a sleight of hand that could change an outcome on election day.
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You get the sly sense reading this book that you are not seeing the whole writer; there is a sleight of hand — something only partially revealed — so that the fragments glow more.
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"Fisher has invited officials of many agencies and members of Congress to demonstrate what we believe are vastly superior construction methods and capabilities," Scott Sleight, an attorney for Fisher, told the Post.
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One example of this financial sleight of hand is delayed claiming of benefits, where the larger monthly checks create the impression to the prospective retiree is bypassing free money by claiming early.
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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.
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He describes it as a "partisan maneuver" and a "clever sleight of hand" — an action by Mr. Cordray to exploit a loophole that would create a deliberate legal crisis in the agency.
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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.
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This time, however, we can stop our reflexive actions to Mr. Barr's linguistic sleight of hand and keep the focus on the national security threat posed by Mr. Trump's relationship with Russia.
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No other narrative form can so dexterously tell a story while critiquing it, a sleight-of-hand enabled by the engaged moral interplay of an author/narrator with his or her narrative.
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" 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.
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But that was something of a corporate sleight of hand, since it provided no coverage for guests who wanted a new passport simply because their data had been taken by foreign spies.
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While most wanted to keep buying U.S. grains, one Mexican feed manufacturer told the Americans: "We're losing confidence in the U.S. as a reliable supplier," said Sleight, declining to name the customer.
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"Most of what the budget speech projects as big favours to the farming community is actually 'business as usual' with a sleight of hand," the groups said in a statement after the budget.
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They note that Rousseff - who would be the first Brazilian president impeached for more than three decades - is accused of a budgetary sleight of hand commonly employed by many elected officials in Brazil.
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For a brief second, it looks as if he's going to choke the life out of her, but she pulls a sleight of hand and stabs him with her Valyrian steel dagger. Poof!
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Last weekend, by the slenderest of margins -- and the sleight of hand only media manipulation can manage -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took control of his country out of the hands of the people.
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They note that Rousseff — who would be the first Brazilian president impeached for more than three decades — is accused of a budgetary sleight of hand commonly employed by many elected officials in Brazil.
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Her early works, a series known as Sleight of Hand , involved pushing multiple-exposure photography to its limits: Hovsepian temporarily affixed sheets of paper on a wall, stacking single negatives with different arrangements.
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This sleight of hand allows these entities to pay the more favorable Bulgarian rate, but represents an obvious drain on tax revenue in Greece — where corporate tax rates are currently at 29 percent.
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In her impeachment trial, she is accused of a budgetary sleight of hand in an effort to conceal Brazil's economic troubles and win re-election in 2014 — not of stealing to enrich herself.
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Very soon the Treasury Department will reach the limits of this financial sleight of hand, and Congress will have to either raise the debt ceiling — currently US$22 trillion — or suffer the consequences.
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The dignified calm with which Mr. Toussaint plays these rollicking tunes almost suggests a sleight-of-hand: he's not showing you how much work it takes to make this music sound so effortless.
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It was well and good that slavery was not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, but, as the fiery anti-slavery advocate Luther Martin pointed out, this was something of a sleight of hand.
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The scene in which I felt most engaged, confused and affected involves little techno sleight of hand, just a very deft performer (that would be Mr. Radcliffe) treading water in an improvisational sequence.
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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.
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Her early works, a series known as Sleight of Hand , involved pushing multiple-exposure photography to its limits: Hovsepian temporarily affixed sheets of paper on a wall, stacking single negatives with different arrangements.
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"If you study the major battles of history, you see that trickery wins every time," Aleksei A. Komarov, the military engineer in charge of this sleight of hand, said with a sly smile.
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Still, I never got the sense that Mr. Akhtar is enamored of money — he lives modestly and works constantly — but he is fascinated by the game, its rules and its sleight of hand.
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Almost as remarkable as the sustained sleight-of-hand of the writing is the fact that the play boasts a cast of 18, the sort of scale you'd usually expect from a musical.
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Leaving aside that AT&T is the last company on earth we should listen to when it comes to such a theoretical Congressional action, this paragraph is where the real sleight of hand happens.
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I couldn't see very well in the semi-dark, so I'm hopeful this was a sleight-of-hand, but — whatever I was pulling down upon was not easily emerging from wherever it really … was.
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Schiff travels to the White House to review the intelligence Nunes saw and emerges Friday evening, accusing Nunes and the White House engaging in sleight of hand to distract investigators from the Russia investigation.
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It was sold as a vehicle for dazzling CG effects and scantily clad women kicking ass, but there's a thoughtfulness to the way Sucker Punch is constructed that justifies the marketing sleight of hand.
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Her performance and those of the actors in the commercials merge into one delicious experience of TV. "The Rachel Maddow Show" is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show.
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The body of the entertainer — widely known for his sleight of hand card tricks — was discovered in a closet of the famed private club that offers upscale dining and magic shows, ABC-7 reported.
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There are some who feel that words should not be played with, but if we followed that rule, there would be no puns, no verbal sleight-of-hand, no delicious Thursday tricks to enjoy.
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Aside from the parallel story line of Bobby's betrayal and all its sleight-of-hand references, Chuck's snare snaps shut just a little too easily given the size and cunning of its intended quarry.
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No click trickery or shop sleight-of-hand here, only the best-selling product picks sourced from Refinery29's top stories (that we pulled after analyzing 12-month's worth of anonymous reader-purchase data).
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Overall, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act amounted to a technocratic sleight of hand — a scheme set to shift an even greater share of the federal tax burden onto the shoulders of American families.
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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.
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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.
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When he breaks swiftly into the open court, his passing takes on a sleight-of-hand quality, so quick that you notice the ball only as it lands in the hands of a teammate.
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CHICAGO – A man arrested for stealing nearly $160,1303 worth of diamonds from a Chicago jewelry store used a sleight of hand to pull off a theft that wasn&apost discovered for days, according to police.
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Finding a way to include time to socialize while also having some breathing room can be a sleight-of-hand, especially in the early days when founders are apt to be working long hours together.
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At the end, the experience pivots to an NSA whistleblower who explains more about its societal implications, using the same high-tech glitch-art sleight of hand the film used to anonymize its sources. Yes!
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Any sleight, no matter how trivial or imagined, can get you docked a few fractions of a point, the equivalent of a plummet in your credit score, or in Shteyngart's twisted fiction, your Hotness rating.
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Swiss director bo Odar loves images of sleight-of-hand magic and glowering men lurking deep in the depths of giant hoods, and Dark shares Who Am I's grimy, heavy cinematography and screaming discordant soundtrack.
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He knows how to dance out on a limb and even, by some sleight-of-hand, extend it further than you might have thought possible — but he also seems to know just when to stop.
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Agency life had not been her thing—"a lot of crazy bitches"—so she started her own branding firm, the Fox Theory, which does marketing for entrepreneurs, artists, authors, and a sleight-of-hand magician.
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To the Editor: Natalie Friedman's Op-Ed engages in a rhetorical sleight of hand common to media coverage of higher education: It presents a privileged minority of students as representative of the college-going majority.
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But the sleight of hand is typical of the director, Asghar Farhadi, who has—in films like "About Elly" (2009), "A Separation" (2011), and "The Past" (2013)—shown himself to be a master of disorientation.
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Over time, of course, the sleight of hand has grown increasingly sophisticated, to the point where computer-generated imaging now makes it seem as if even the most preposterous events are unfolding before our eyes.
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Whoever he was, Erdnase achieved lasting fame: More than 100 years later, no practitioner of sleight-of-hand worth his aces is without a copy, and his identity is one of modern magic's foundational riddles.
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This was fancy sleight of hand that actually refers to everyone in Brazil; all states in Brazil have a homicide rate of 10 in 215,21 or more, with some reaching 215 per 230,211 or higher.
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In Vazquez Montalbán's telling he was a caustic observer of corruption and the sleight of hand involved in Spain's transition to democracy, as crimes were forgotten and the same elites kept their places at the top.
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A friend characterized Sleight to me as J.D. Dillard's calling card movie, designed and shot for him to drop it straight onto Marvel's doorstep in the hopes of getting a big-budget superhero movie to direct.
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The manifesto's sleight-of-hand delineation between "women, on average" and the actual living, breathing women who have had to work alongside this guy failed to reassure many of those women — and failed to reassure me.
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To marry #MeToo to Twitter is a rhetorical sleight-of-hand: After all, if Twitter is full of crazy people, there's no need to engage seriously with anything they say, since their critiques are mere invective.
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To accomplish this sleight of hand, it helps to tell the story from the perspective of an individual who is intensely involved in the mystery without having the capacity to comprehend what is happening around her.
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His theater work, often in collaboration with David Mamet, features Jay's sleight of hand, his passion for showbiz history and a lascivious joy in the polysyllabic mot juste — the last nicely on show in this book.
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There are a few reasons to think about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, not least because so much of American culture today seems to operate on smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand, and outright falsehoods.
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" U.S. Grains Council President and CEO Tom Sleight said the group is "shocked and distressed to see news reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order to withdraw the United States from the NAFTA.
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Mr. Ribisi plays Marius Josipovic, a con man with a sleight of hand so keen that he can beach a whale at the poker table, then, a split-second later, hijack his mark's Rolex and wallet.
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His sleight of hand acknowledges the apparent trauma without materializing it; in the place of "real" repression is a sort of spectral theater, a performance of the sinister crystallized in the absence of an actual memory.
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The same number of stills from a Volkswagen campaign, meanwhile, a nearly abstract view of a hilly yellow roadway, assert the artist's power to change a picture's effect on the viewer with simple sleight of hand.
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One of the highest-ranking women in government, Ms. McMahon, 212, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, has helped steer a more than $240 billion empire built on branding sizzle and sleight of hand.
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Mr. Fleming's gesture is clearly heartfelt, but in a film that avoids the sappiness so frequently reserved for gay domesticity in popular entertainment, it is the one sentimental sleight of hand that gives the game away.
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In the American phase of his career, Mr. Verhoeven, who started out in the Netherlands, was a blockbuster sleight-of-hand artist, disguising pungent, politically tinged satires as noisy sci-fi action movies and overheated potboilers.
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You can see this sleight of hand at work in the newly opened Todd Snyder shop in Manhattan, which feels like an achievement and also a hall of mirrors, depending on which angle you're viewing from.
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What's more, Yoo's intellectual sleight of hand partly obscures another important and urgent truth: The Founding generation feared that America might be drawn into European affairs and that foreign powers might try to influence American politics.
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This is the same season that he inconspicuously slips in cameos from Tyler the Creator and Blake Griffin (that last one being less sleight of hand and more "just a nice guy that plays basketball well").
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He hinted at having occult powers of his own, but ultimately declared that his stage act was "merely a matter of a sleight of hand," as Christopher Sandford related in his book "Masters of Mystery" (21968).
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Trump's move could cut off near-term sales and stymie economic development that would drive longer-term demand growth, said Tom Sleight, president of the U.S. Grains Council, a grain trade development organization, in a statement.
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I have weed carts at home and I do the whole vaper sleight of hand thing everyone does, where I conceal the pen in my hand and sneak in a couple hits while I'm walking the dog.
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The roster of magicians change from night to night and week to week, but you might catch Matthew Holtzclaw's superb sleight-of-hand, which includes a graceful variation on Chambers's beer trick, with lit cigarettes conjured, too.
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It supposedly took two years for Mr. Blaine — who has willingly submitted to being buried alive, frozen in ice and stranded on a pillar 100 feet above Bryant Park — to think up his latest sleight of hand.
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On the other, freely switching from color to black and white while demonstrating an impressive sleight of hand in his editing, he dramatizes the movie's back story even as he deconstructs what might be its finished version.
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There is nothing wrong, or unprecedented, in such a sleight of hand; Josef von Sternberg and his muse, Marlene Dietrich, conjured up "Morocco" and "Shanghai Express," in the early nineteen-thirties, without leaving the premises of Paramount.
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The military medals, the dresses, the sashes and scepters and crowns—they are all part of a sleight of hand to make the monarchy seem glorious, and in that glory, to create a sense of national stability.
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There is some sleight of hand here: Hawley's campaign portrays the anti-Obamacare litigation as being only about the individual mandate, but the states' actual position is that the entire law should be overturned along with the mandate.
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It is true that verbal sleight-of-hand sometimes works, and American business has perfected the technique (that is why McDonald's sells Quarter Pounders, not Four Ouncers), but that is no guarantee of success in the political realm.
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In this film, as in The Witch, Eggers is playing with the tropes of horror, but we're so used to those deployed as sleight of hand that it's a shock when the horror doesn't try to hide itself.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's ruling 5-Star Movement has suggested using verbal sleight of hand to solve a problem that has been bothering some of its politicians — a rigid two-term limit on how long members can hold office.
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It makes last week's episode seem substantially weaker in retrospect: a bit of dramatic sleight-of-hand that used a fantastic performance by Melissa McBride to make a character leap that actually doesn't make a ton of sense.
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To argue it does sounds more like legislative sleight-of-hand coming from a fast-talking K Street lobbyist but it's been enough to derail the only thing that for the moment can set things right in Arizona.
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What saves the book is the gorgeous sleight of hand that draws it to a satisfying end, and the way he chooses themes that run deeper than mere sociopolitical commentary: parental duty, friendship, romance, the call of home.
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And "Hacksaw Ridge" uses the moral dilemma of its hero — who is sometimes tempted to forsake his vows and pick up a rifle in the heat of battle — as a pretext for its own ethical sleight of hand.
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Usually known as Griff among agents and fellow N.B.A. executives, he is one of the more voluble and transparent general managers in a league that prefers its wheeler-dealers on the more stoic and sleight-of-hand side.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - A statistician's sleight of hand suggesting Ireland's economy ballooned by 20153 percent last year has muddied assessments of its true health and provided a complex challenge for a government already wrestling with the consequences of Brexit.
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There is some sleight of hand here: Hawley's camp implies the litigation is narrowly focused on the individual mandate, but the entire law is at risk under the legal theory deployed by Texas, Missouri, and the other states.
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Paying for $200 billion in infrastructure by cutting $200 billion in infrastructure spending, fumed Moser, is "a bolder lie, a bolder sleight of hand, and a bolder bunch of BS than I would have ever imagined even from" Trump.
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In parallel to such efforts, there will always be a market for unique live experiences that yank people away from their screens, be it a giant rock concert or an intimate sleight-of-hand performance by a master magician.
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Sleight has been widely billed as a small-scale superhero origin story, but it's also a family story about someone who's so determined to survive that he makes choices other people wouldn't — physical choices at first, then moral ones.
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John Neuffer, president and chief executive officer of the Semiconductor Industry Association, told Reuters the offer would be "akin to an accounting sleight of hand" and "an attempt to rearrange our supply chains and drive them deeper into China".
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Sleight premiered at Sundance nearly a year ago, and while it certainly wasn't the festival's biggest movie, it did walk away with some warm reviews — and this first teaser hints at what people seem to have liked about it.
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John Neuffer, president and chief executive of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), told Reuters the offer would be "akin to an accounting sleight of hand" and "an attempt to rearrange our supply chains and drive them deeper into China".
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To me, this recalls a classic pop-star sleight of hand: Promote "girl power," but don't ever suggest that patriarchy is the source of girls' disempowerment, and you'll never suffer the consequences of being seen as an angry feminist.
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So Stephen Curry looked listless and ill and retired to the Warriors locker room in the first quarter; he returned a few minutes later to score 16 sly sleight-of-hand points and lead a crucial charge before halftime.
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That's in part the result of a very delicate sleight of hand Ms. Herzog executes in shaping the story, which at first seems to turn on a movie-of-the-week premise about a very sick child named Alex.
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It was actually acceptable to gaze down at Lorenzo Pisoni's hands in Mr. Blessing's "This Magic Moment" because Mr. Pisoni was working a deck of cards: His character was reminiscing about performing sleight-of-hand tricks for his child.
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However, the country may need to keep importing feed grains if the quality of the reserves is poor or domestic prices remain too high, said Tom Sleight, president of the U.S. Grains Council, an industry group that promotes exports.
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Read more " _____ • Roger Parloff in New York Magazine: "The triptych charade employed to fire Comey — the Rosenstein to Sessions to Trump sleight-of-hand — is one of those grand and audacious lies that just leaves you shaking your head.
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Likewise, the more Brooker allows himself to fall back on neat sleight-of-hand tricks, the less bandwidth he has for doing what Black Mirror does best, which is exploring the way that human nature responds to new technology.
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Using a mathematical sleight-of-hand known as a "zero-knowledge proof," Zcash (until recently known as Zerocoin or Zerocash) offers the same anti-forgery assurances as bitcoin: No one can counterfeit Zcash, or spend the same Zcash "coin" twice.
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Everything about him is a con, a cheat; and while Jeffrey Dean Morgan is doing his best, all the charisma in the world can't save a character when his entire existence is predicated upon cheap storytelling tricks and sleight of hand.
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Enron, as it happened, was dabbling in a number of creative business practices at the time, and in December 2001 declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy — then the largest in American history — amid revelations about insider trading and accounting sleight of hand.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A NAFTA termination letter from U.S. President Donald Trump could become the ultimate sleight of hand from Washington as it seeks to gain negotiating leverage over Canada and Mexico in talks to update the 24-year-old trade pact.
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I think if you look at Sleight and these comics I'm obsessed with, there is a kind of cool relationship in the not-superheroes side of it, in that these are sort of genre-adjacent stories, while not overtly superhero.
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The "shell game" accusation refers to a sleight of hand swindle, often seen on city streets for money, in which a player must follow and guess where an object lands as a dealer passes it under overturned cups or shells.
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Woo's sleight of hand with the design has been to put all the ugly stuff into a separate, rather enormous power supply brick and leave only the pretty bits for the metal-and-glass cube you put on your desk.
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If anything, the encryption debate is probably a convenient bit of sleight of hand, distracting people from the fact that, shhhh, there's actually a ton of information we can already get, and will continue to get, irrespective of this debate.
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"The change announced today on APD is simply a sleight of hand move by the Treasury," said Tim Alderslade, chief executive of industry association Airlines UK, adding the duty should be cut to help regional airports establish links with emerging markets.
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But there's a rhetorical sleight of hand at play in lauding her as the candidate "with a plan"—the phrase surreptitiously implies that thoroughness in and of itself is the antidote to the rot at the center of American politics.
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At this point, it becomes a matter of whether companies that make smartphones can be forced to include FM functionality on future devices, something the NAB tried to sleight-of-hand into the conversation in a response to Apple today.
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" The GOP's proposed pitch to increase tax cuts while axing tax deductions popular with the middle class -- like deductions for student loans and school supplies purchased by teachers -- are a "sleight of hand," Pelosi said, adding that "it's a shell game.
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But while journalists working on the investigation have hinted that more Americans eventually will be implicated in tax evasion, sanctions violations, money laundering, and other financial crimes or sleight of hand, this low number actually should come as no surprise.
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In his 23 years as a barman at Cronin & Phelan's, Mr. Cremin has gained a loyal following of patrons who come for both his pour and his powers to dazzle with sleight of hand, misdirection, mentalism and other magic techniques.
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But he has made numerous enemies on the way up, and this latest sleight of hand has produced outrage in the Brussels news corps, elicited unusual animosity from the bloc's media officers and prompted calls from European lawmakers for an investigation.
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These bills had three unifying features: They massively cut taxes, especially on the affluent; they massively cut spending, especially on the poor; and they hid the huge deficits they were certain to produce by using budget-scoring sleight of hand.
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We encounter the work as though the scenarios were real, and therein lies the intrigue of Bartlett's work, which is his ability to paint what exists before him with a sleight of hand that never strays too far into fantasy.
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One cannot leave this book without further awareness of our deeply unequal justice system, the abuses of money bail, and the legal sleight of hand that allows children to be sentenced as adults, despite their lack of capacity for equal culpability.
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He came downcourt, putting the ball once, twice between his legs, and with a sleight of hand flipped the ball into the air to Davis, who, like a 6-foot-10 wide receiver, caught and tossed it through the hoop.
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It said that Anbang's meteoric growth and acquisitions raised suspicions of financial sleight of hand, including capital injections coming from companies linked to Mr. Wu. "The left hand has been helping the right hand to inflate capital," the article said.
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"We had to do this sort of sleight of hand where we would have the Gauntlet throw its path for a beat, and then we would back the action up and redress the crater a little bit," Aitken told Insider.
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Whether one believes that he's actually doing what he claims or that he's simply cloaking sleight of hand and the like in brilliant theatrics, he seems to be drawing back the curtain and offering a glimpse into some uncanny realm.
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Even here, she managed to dismiss her predatory behavior by turning it into a joke about being handsy—honking people's breasts or tapping somebody on their "Pikachu"—a sleight-of-hand one can only chalk up to her white, female privilege.
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The joke is that "Wiener-Dog" is about as non-epic as can be, but there's also a sleight of hand, with the dazzle of the images distracting us from the fact that the movie has run out of plot.
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Last week, the court told communities that have long resisted the rulings that they cannot escape their responsibilities through legal sleight of hand — and will be held accountable for meeting housing needs that accumulated while they were failing to act.
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In a conversation with Transport for London (TfL) chief engineer Brendan Sleight and Chad Frankish, 49, a TfL program manager, the Queen said that William, Harry and Princess Kate paved the way for victims to get support with their Heads Together campaign.
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" In responses provided to CNN through Scott Sleight, an attorney working on behalf of the company, Fisher maintained that it's "committed to working with all appropriate federal government officials and agencies to provide its expertise and experience to help secure America's southern border.
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In the late 19113s, the amateur magician S.J. Davey helped design an experiment in which he used his sleight-of-hand knowledge to stage hoax séances — the researchers were interested in how people's recollections of the events might deviate from what actually happened.
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The blank-slate passivity is partially due to the narrative sleight-of-hand Shyamalan employs; we learn about Casey's backstory through a series of escalating flashbacks, and the payoff is predicated upon her character remaining a cipher for as long as possible.
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It's possible this purgatory results from Trump rolling out policies in chaos (after all, Trump announced his ban with tweets in July that surprised his own top general), or this may be a clever sleight of hand that serves a legal function.
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Rousseff stands accused of a budgetary sleight of hand employed by many elected officials in Brazil in order to boost her re-election campaign in 2014: borrowing money from state lenders and delaying repayment in order to artificially lower the budget deficit.
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Whether it's all part of an elaborate scheme or he just kind of stumbled into it, Donald Trump has proven to be a sleight-of-hand master who knows how to throw out something shiny while more nefarious stories are at play.
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Black life in America continues to be subject to racist, institutional forces that deny access to citizenship and the rule of law and then, in an outrageous rhetorical sleight of hand, criminalize African-Americans as being undeserving of citizenship or legal protection.
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Sleight premiered in 2016 at Sundance, and that makes sense: for the first half of the movie, it feels like we're watching a pretty standard — if well-acted and confidently directed — indie drama, the kind of thing Sundance films are known for.
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But the Panama Papers — secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and other media partners — suggest that the statement is a legal sleight of hand designed to obscure the true owners of the painting.
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More dubious is the flip side argument, sometimes stated explicitly, but often made through a kind of sleight of hand: Because it's bad that there are additional struggles for women in politics, it's by definition good for women in politics to succeed.
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The main action does not come from what we see, but what we bring to the scene, a sleight-of-hand that is probably as close to auteur-ist craftsmanship that one can expect from an endeavor the size of Game of Thrones.
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It's an interesting and sort of boring sleight of hand that male creators do when they put a cheerleader in a white linen dress and a flower crown, and pretend she is not the exact same beautiful, perfect girl as she was before.
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This sleight of hand, apparent from the first minutes to art world cognoscenti but only acknowledged two thirds of the way through the film, lends an air of deception to the entire documentary that's reminiscent of Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop.
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At worst, it's a sleight of hand trick, telling Americans that automation will create a better future for all while it instead locks middle-class families into unemployment and ensures the profits created by new technological advancement flow only to the wealthy.
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And both do a tricky, taxing sleight of hand, destabilizing the facts each builds itself up with and the images each enrobes itself in, throwing them up to an arrested sort of perspective that questions their underpinnings, their authenticity, and their historicity.
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Ricky Jay, the master-showman magician, actor, scholar, special effects consultant and author who was called "the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive" by writers for the most prestigious publications of his time, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles.
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A bit of that sentiment remains — Mr. Douglas's jaunty character is revealed to be a traumatized veteran — but, some amusing parody of the British gentry aside, "The Old Dark House" is essentially about its own plot devices and narrative sleight of hand.
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A study published Thursday in Science reveals that it came down to a volcanic sleight of hand: As the lava tumbled to the ocean's depths, it heated the deeper, nutrient-rich waters, allowing them to bubble up to the nutrient-starved surface.
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Chlimper's apparent sleight-of-hand, giving journalists a doctored audio recording of the informant, reminded many here of Alberto Fujimori's manipulation of press and TV. One of the crimes he is serving time for is systematically using the media to smear his opponents.
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Trump was able to generate more press coverage for a part of his business platform without having to directly answer the questions whether or not that was a conflict of interest for a president, another example of Trump stumbling through a masterful sleight of hand.
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And once it gets going, it really has its act together: The major sequences are arguably more rapidly fluid than they need to be – CGI can sometimes play less like special effects than a superior sleight of hand – but they're beautifully orchestrated and sustained.
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He'll have to employ a little sleight of hand when he addresses the nation, given growth hit just 2.3 percent last year — a long way from the president's promise to expand the economy at a 25.2 percent pace or more for years to come.
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A sleight of hand occurs within early episodes, which often drops Simpson's story entirely to explore the complex history of African-Americans in South Central Los Angeles, and their harrowing treatment by the largely white and non-local police officers that patrol their streets.
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When Paul Ryan said in his January 12, 2017, weekly briefing that "the law is in what the actuaries tell us is a death spiral so we've got to intervene to prevent this from getting worse," he was engaged in a rhetorical sleight of hand.
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Recently, federal agencies tried their own sleight-of-hand, launching a glossy brochure touting sage grouse habitat accomplishments over the past year in an effort to fool the public into thinking that their new, collaborative sage grouse efforts are some kind of decisive solution.
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Any time one of our main characters gets themselves into a sticky situation from which there appears to be no escape, the audience is conditioned to be skeptical, knowing that there's probably some sleight of hand that will prove it was all a "gotcha" moment.
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In a vote of 1003 to 22, lawmakers accepted the charges against Ms. Rousseff, accusing her of borrowing from state banks to conceal a looming deficit, a budgetary sleight of hand that critics say was aimed at securing her re-election two years ago.
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No film can replicate the mystery that surrounded 'The Blair Witch Project' 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.
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The promise of VR, as we often talk about it today, is that you no longer need sleight-of-hand — you'll be so immersed that you'll really believe you're a rock star surrounded by screaming fans, without having to bother with learning fake guitar.
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Berlin is a master of this particular reversal, the sleight-of-hand aspect of the short story that puts the reader into the same unguarded state in which we find ourselves when our own lives' losses come at us fast out of our blind spots.
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For her part, Robbie struggles a bit with Harding in the very early going -- it's hard to buy her as a 15 year old, even with the braces -- and the sleight of hand used to realize the skating sequences is visually distracting in places.
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As proof, he cites his mother and her poor life choices, which once kept him from his childhood home—a rhetorical sleight of hand that we could call the J.D. Vance maneuver, after the author of another book that castigates poor whites for being poor.
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As a rhetorical sleight of hand, the exchange was masterful: 10 seconds of decontextualized TV, one cruel Facebook comment and one tweet had been pressed into service as evidence of the moral malignancy of the left as a whole — of half of the entire country.
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Its gestures mimic and even parody de Kooning's emotional arcs, while its careful assembly — required by its weighty, unyielding materials — unmask the sleight of hand perpetrated by the older artist, whose paintings were much more measured and deliberate than their swipes and splatters suggested.
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The project also loops back to popular culture — in particular, to the films of Christopher Nolan, who in movies like "Memento" and "Inception" displays a narrative sleight of hand that transforms everyday experiences like dreaming and remembering into the stuff of wonder and suspense.
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As the fires raged, some countries at a recent UN climate conference in Madrid grumbled about Australia's apparent sleight of hand, involving the use of carbon credits linked to its emission-reduction targets for 2020 as a way of meeting its higher targets for 2030.
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It has none of the technological polish of, say, Frank Gehry's steel hurricanes or Zaha Hadid's kinetic clouds of white fiberglass; standing across the lawn, you can see precisely how the building works — there is no sleight of hand here — and yet still be amazed.
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A bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act has been "leveraged, by a sleight of hand, into reform of the entire Medicaid program," said Greg Moody, director of the Office of Health Transformation in Ohio, run by the state's Republican governor, John R. Kasich.
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To this end, DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what's known as relational aesthetics: a tributary of the first two in which spectators become indispensable, unpredictable participants in creating an artwork's meaning.
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A plan to sell the national carrier Air India has failed for lack of buyers and in the last couple of years the government has reached its target by selling its shares in one state-run firm to another in a sleight of hand.
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Get hot with Hotheads at these shows:Nov 11 at Alphaville with Pure Disgust, Wound Man, NYC Headhunters and OutskirtsDec 4 at Alphaville with Fury, Unified Right, Sleight Of Hand, Krimewatch, Hotheads Listen to bands like Hotheads, NYC Headhunters, and Outbreak on Tim Scott's radio show Teenage Hate.
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Of course, I don't expect things to go smoothly all the time — I know full well what show I'm watching — but in this particular case it felt more like a telegraphed set-up for an easy fall than the sleight of hand it could have been.
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For the other white people, "it was necessary to have a nigger" to maintain their false sense of social standing in an economic system that was exploiting them as well — a sleight of hand played by the planter class to distract them from their own subjugation.
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Sleight manages to combine the appeal of a superhero origin story with a story that feels real and genuine, and it does so mostly seamlessly, with a talented cast: Latimore and Reid are great, as is Seychelle Gabriel, who plays Holly, the girl Bo shyly asks out.
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Meantime, Mexico has promised to retaliate with tariffs on goods imported from the U.S. "The rhetoric is getting into the way," said Thomas Sleight, the president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council, a trade group which develops export markets for corn, barley and related products.
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As Debbie's plan gains momentum, the pair are joined by Constance the sleight-of-hand master (Awkwafina), Nine Ball the hacker (Rihanna), Tammy the fence (Sarah Paulson), Rose Weil the designer (Helena Bonham Carter), Amita the jeweler (Mindy Kaling), and, eventually, Daphne the movie star (Anne Hathaway).
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He accuses Barr of "deliberately misrepresenting" the full report in the four-page summary he sent to Congress, using "sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies which he hopes people will not notice" to make the report seem more favorable to Trump than it actually is.
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Certainly Mr. Hanks, slipping back into the role of the so-called symbologist Robert Langdon for a third time, is a master of that great Hollywood sleight of hand in which a big star beguiles you so artfully that you don't see (or simply ignore) the deception.
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The language — against developers, in favor of public assets — served as a linguistic sleight of hand that disguised the fact that an influential, overwhelmingly city-based and white cultural elite was mounting a fight against sharing resources with a less privileged part of the Sydney area.
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Whereas the principal sleight of hand in Season 2 essentially repeated that of Season 1 — the story lines of first Dolores and then Bernard, a host played by Jeffrey Wright, shifted perplexingly between past and present — in Season 3, we have a new puzzle to solve: identity.
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But health experts say the regulations did not go far enough and see a sleight of hand at work, with industry marketing now presenting routine antibiotic use as a "proactive" necessity and weight gain an ancillary benefit, as Elanco did in the Pig Zero marketing campaign.
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"This tit for tat has to stop, and talks to find reasonable and lasting solutions must begin, for the good of U.S. agriculture and the customers we have spent decades working to win as loyal buyers," said Tom Sleight, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council.
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The sweetheart deal came at the expense of nearly every other hospital in the U.S. Known to many as the "Bay State Boondoggle," the sleight of hand has already resulted in $2628 billion in additional payments to Massachusetts hospitals and could reach $28503 billion throughout 22019 years.
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The government could also avoid adding to its fiscal deficit by funding the plan through state-owned bodies rather than directly, an accounting sleight-of-hand that could allow New Delhi not to count the expenditure as part of its budget under International Monetary Fund rules.
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Nearby, Balboa and Beresan serve up chewy reds from retrofitted barns in a shared parking lot, while across the street, Sleight of Hand — with its Pearl Jam posters, vinyl albums that customers may play and Neil Patrick Harris gracing its bottles in magician's garb — offers a unique tasting experience.
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Employing sleight of hand, some fast talking, and a lot of tall tales, it exaggerates the legend until the illusion takes on a life of its own, turning into the promised "fever dream" that, while admittedly stuffed with some truly excellent musical setpieces, has something sinister at its core.
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I called the manifesto's citations to findings about "average" women a "sleight of hand" for a very specific reason: While he dutifully includes that limiting language when making the citations, the policies he goes on to advance in the memo have no mathematically rigorous connection to those averages.
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Chris Kennedy, son of the late Robert Kennedy, had some practice jabbing at Rauner, assailing his "so-called turnaround agenda" as a sleight of hand, and "part of the narrative that government doesn't work so he has to privatize it," in remarks at the Democratic convention in 29.
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His game was so sublime that he has a move named after him: the Cruyff turn, a deft sleight-of-foot maneuver in which he teased defenders in one direction before using his heel to push the ball behind him and a burst of speed to break away.
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Or maybe there was an entirely new approach to this plot point I hadn't even considered that the showrunner and co-writer Sarah Treem (working here with the writer Katie Robins and the director Rodrigo Garcia) would pull out of her hat like a sleight-of-hand artist.
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But "Love Is Blind" isn't all that interested in conveying the experience of listening to — let alone playing — music, even if there are sweet little descriptions of the invisible trickery (thin strips of lead glued here, a faint sanding-down there) that is the tuner's sleight of hand.
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Performed wordlessly, the acts occasionally incorporate magnificent sleight of hand: The Florist (Chang-min Lee) appears to make infinite numbers of glittery cards materialize, multiply and dematerialize, while the Alchemist (Young-min Kim) seems to produce a metal hoop from sand particles and then dissolve it into the same.
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The creator and performer, Derek DelGaudio ("Nothing to Hide"), means to be somewhat more conceptual, giving us a show, directed by Frank Oz (with music by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo), that is about identity — his and ours — and perception, while still wowing his audience through sleight of hand.
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The sleight of hand that made "Earned It," the Weeknd's magisterial song for the original "Fifty Shades of Grey" film, so effective was that it relied on a sort of bondage, balancing the tension between its polished exterior and what was easy to imagine as its sleaze-ridden core.
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This often manifests in unconventional ways, from Alyssa Thomas's possessions that start with defensive rebounds and end with sleight of hand around the basket to the midrange stylings of the 5-foot-8 Courtney Williams, who makes up for her lack of height with a seemingly limitless vertical leap.
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A fair amount of sleight-of-hand clues, like "Classic case of making life choices?" for ROE V. WADE and "Introduction to bio?" for ABOUT ME. All in all, an excellent Saturday puzzle by two young men who give me faith that this pastime of ours will carry on.
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The time frame sleight of hand lets the park exist without interfering with anything that may appear in the upcoming sequels — audiences won't even see Avatar 2 for three more years — but more importantly, it creates a scenario where the park itself can freely become part of the franchise's larger mythology.
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Five times—a first for India—since coming to power in 2014 it has imposed the law as a presidential "ordinance", a legal sleight of hand left over from the British Raj that allows governments to impose laws by decree as long as they are confirmed by parliament within six months.
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Watching Sleight director J.D. Dillard introduce his film on Saturday while his cast and crew whooped and hollered in the back of the Library Theater was electrifying; even more so was watching the film unfold in all its utterly unique street-magic bio-hacking South-LA coming-of-age richness.
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In a new Supreme Court brief on behalf of underwriters accused of defrauding California's state employees' pension fund, Paul Clement of Kirkland & Ellis warned the justices not to be duped by the pension fund's sleight-of-hand – not on the real issue in the case and not on underlying policy.
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Armed with the Panama Papers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Washington, DC-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and a consortium of other news organizations have published reports and articles offering a glimpse into a world of financial sleight of hand that many know exist, but to which few ever gain access.
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The statement simply doubles-down on her first comments and then veers off on to the topic of adoption which has little, if anything, to do with the separation of families at the border, a clumsy sleight of hand to obfuscate the real issue here that accomplishes little and makes even less sense.
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There are more peeks at the fallout that's occurred since — including a bit of editorial sleight of hand in which President Obama appears to comment on the show's events — and then Christian Slater leans in close to provide a not-so-subtle in-joke aimed at a particular Cupertino-based computer company.
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He prefers Bee brand playing cards — "That's what I learned with" — and he plays with either a queen of diamonds or a queen of hearts — both are red — and two black cards, challenging all comers to pick out the red one off the top of his cardboard box after some sleight of hand.
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Peak TV isn't over yet, but it increasingly feels like the slightest jostle — venture capitalists losing confidence in Netflix, or a mild recession, or a major unscripted hit taking over the discourse — could make everybody realize, all at once, that the sleight of hand was always happening right out in the open.
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Sunless Skies works, in the end, because its entire structure is about letting us have this tour through a narrative magic show that is always revealing just a fraction of what it has implied, and performing acts of rhetorical sleight of hand to send the imagination racing along a different line of thought.
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Photo: GettyGetting a phone call connected to Air Force One, even if you're someone without any sort of prestige or military or diplomatic rank whatsoever, is apparently about as challenging as using sleight of hand on a dog—a really gullible dog who swallows car keys and constantly runs into the same glass door.
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That explains some of the early response to J.D. Dillard's Sleight, a shoestring-budgeted indie film about Bo Wolfe, a black street magician (rapper and Collateral Beauty actor Jacob Latimore) navigating the L.A. drug-dealing scene and drawing on his magic and engineering skills to take care of his little sister after their mother's death.
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After charting the aggressive optimism of the dam-building years, during which the Colorado became, in the script's words, "a delivery system for liquid property," Mr. Eyuboglu, in a sleight of hand, reversed the engineers' explosions, then offered calmly majestic images of the geological formations that now lie at the bottom of Lake Powell.
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Ironically, the product of all this single-author sleight-of-hand reads like a shockingly smooth collaboration, as if Meadow and Carrie — who, with their opposing aesthetic approaches, could never have completed a film together — have somehow joined forces in a novel, the only art form capacious enough yet interior enough to contain them.
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The federal building would mar what the American Planning Association calls one of the nation's "great streets," except that it is hidden by a red brick antebellum structure that faces the street—an architectural sleight of hand that says much about the reasons that the Homeland Security officers were on Broad Street that day.
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It's like he was the most chosen of them all: It glides to him gracefully as he casually—almost no-look—grabs them out of the air (I imagine with two fingers, or maybe chopsticks to make it harder) and neatly tucks the coupon under his arm like a sleight-of-hand magic trick.
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Released almost 10 years after Charmed Particles, The Lighted Field incorporates archival footage, mirrors, and increased camera movement — "sleight[s] of the eye" — that give its swings between darkness and light, shadow and substance a dual sense of place, a feeling that within this world there is another, a world of phantasmal figures and visions.
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Unlike modern-day illusionist David Blaine's remarkable ability to spend 44 days dangling 30 feet in the air in a transparent Plexiglas case over London's River Thames without eating, pulling a rabbit out of a hat is the kind of magic trick anyone can learn, provided they've got a hat, a rabbit, and a knack for sleight of hand.
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His position there led him to a tech credit on Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which inspired him find the funding to shoot his own film through friends at Diablo Entertainment, then get Sleight picked up by Blumhouse Productions, the company backing Get Out, M. Night Shyamalan's Split, and other recent small-scale horror hits.
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The first scene where Jack and the other hopeful pledges meet the members of the Order would be a lot creepier if it didn't take place in broad daylight and if the mages weren't demonstrating their power with sleight-of-hand coin tricks that looked better when they were done in the first episode of American Gods.
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As the enormity of the task the company had set for itself sunk in, Coca-Cola and other working group members pressured Hoekstra to allow them to engage in an act of water accounting sleight of hand that would shave off nearly half of the Water Footprint for every half-liter of Coke, according to people at the meetings.
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"The program amounts to a sleight of hand that beautifies bank balance sheets but hardly comes to grips with the basic problems of bad loans, distorted incentives in the banking and state enterprise systems, and weak financial regulation," said Eswar S. Prasad, an economist at Cornell University who used to lead the China division at the International Monetary Fund.
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Today's puzzle by Peter "The New York Times Crossword Ends Tomorrow Ha Ha Just Kidding" Gordon is a true sleight-of-hand feat, which will make you slap your forehead at the beginning of the solve and then slap yourself on the back of the head on the way to the egress, as P. T. Barnum might have said.
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His sleight-of-hand releases are endlessly inventive, yet whether it's a chugging 70s disco rework, minimal low-tempo groove workouts, or some dried-out filter edit of some Nervous-era house, they remain so faithful to their original influences they trick you into believing they could be long-lost dubplates recovered from the dusty basement of some forgotten pioneer.
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Although Ms. Rousseff has not been accused of graft — her impeachment trial is based on a budgetary sleight of hand intended to enhance her re-election prospects — corruption scandals have tarnished the reputation of her mentor, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Workers' Party standard-bearer who picked her to be his successor and had planned to run again in 22.6.
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The donor requirement has already led to some unusual practices: A super PAC supporting Jay Inslee, the Washington governor focused on climate change, spent $411,000 on Facebook ads that directed donors not to the super PAC website but to Mr. Inslee's campaign — an almost sleight-of-hand way to convert big money checks into the small donors needed to qualify for the debates.
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"This is much more a sleight of hand by special counsel than by McGahn because it sounds like McGahn gave two to three different versions," Mr. Giuliani said, adding that he thought Mr. Mueller's report was a "disgrace" because it left out that Mr. Trump brought up the special counsel's perceived conflicts of interest with other people without demanding he be fired.
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Disenchanted that a Republican-controlled federal government wouldn't repeal every word of the law, Texas and a coalition of states tried a sleight of hand: They leaned on President Trump's 2017 tax bill, known officially as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — which zeroed out the tax penalty of the health care law's individual mandate — and argued that the mandate itself was unconstitutional.
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The Laundromat aims to show how the web of loopholes in various countries' tax codes and sleight-of-hand tricks were employed by the rich, and how they affected ordinary people — like a woman (Meryl Streep) who lost her husband in a tour boat accident, then was unable to collect insurance payments because the boat company's insurance came from a fraudulent shell company.
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The mosaic may be a departure from his usual medium, but it is also emblematic of his trademark sleight of hand: Mr. Tuymans gives us an image that may make us feel one way, but when we find out what it is — through a title, a wall text, or, in this case, a new perspective — its meaning changes, often in an unsettling way.
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Please Listen to Trump Get Prank Called on Air Force OnePhoto: GettyGetting a phone call connected to Air Force One, even if you're someone without any sort of prestige or military or diplomatic rank whatsoever, is apparently about as challenging as using sleight of hand on a dog—a really gullible dog who swallows car keys and constantly runs into the same glass door.
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The Laundromat aims to show how loopholes in various countries' tax codes were exploited and sleight-of-hand tricks were employed by the rich, and how they affected ordinary people — like a woman (Meryl Streep) who lost her husband in a tour boat accident and then was unable to collect insurance payments because the boat company's liability coverage came from a fraudulent shell company.
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Like Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn" and "Nora Webster," Wood's novel has no burning secrets or sudden deaths; instead, it deploys a sequence of small gestures (a discovered button, a deer made into a pie, a man's breath on Ada's neck, the swelling of the river) with such sleight-of-hand that the reader never guesses whether joy, injury or humiliation is ahead — much like life.
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So when series creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy announced a drastic plan to curb theorizing and spoiler culture — it ended up being an elaborate Rickroll, which was a little disappointing considering the other potential outcomes — it seemed like an indication that the show's second season would take the same approach, using filmmaking sleight of hand to create a show reliant on dramatic reveals and secret surprises.
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And though he stood for his first speech as Tory leader in a spotless dark blue suit, his top jacket button firmly buttoned, a pristine white shirt and a sky blue tie only just slightly right of center, it is possible that Mr. Johnson trumps even President Trump when it comes to strategic use of a deceptively absurd image and sleight of sartorial hand.
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It's a tribute to Mr. McEwan's inventiveness and sleight of hand that he turns this incongruous setup into a small tour de force that showcases his gifts as a writer — his authority, his imaginative verve, his sly delight in the gymnastics words can perform — while conjuring the uncertainties of a contemporary world, troubled by social upheaval, new and old inequities and unexpected political change.
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That rhetorical sleight was on display in July when Calibra head David Marcus appeared before Congress, swatting away questions about the unprecedented reach and scale of Libra with the phrase "As far as Calibra is concerned …" The suggestion was that Facebook itself, through its new Calibra subsidiary, is simply one node on the network and would only be responsible for activity within the wallet itself.
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In its first half, Sleight is the story of a kid who's been knocked down by life and keeps fighting back, and one of the film's smartest tactics is to introduce us to some of Bo's more surprising talents and the device in his arm early, then let the story run its course just long enough that we've forgotten it isn't a straightforward, realistic drama before it reintroduces those elements.
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While the B-220006 and B-2202 now have, and the B-2628 will have, a nuclear weapons delivery capability — and are deemed to be adjuncts of our nuclear deterrent posture — attributing as a presumed "cost" of nuclear modernization 28500 percent of the cost of aircraft that have only delivered (and will likely only deliver in the future) conventional weapons in combat is a completely misleading example of budgetary sleight of hand.
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You can choose to be unnerved by Dern's rhetorical sleight-of-hand if you want, but in the end she is, like all the great ones, simply a child of her age, and her age is one in which an American president has made it clear that even the simplest facts are now up for grabs and all words can be whimsically dissociated from their meaning whenever that meaning doesn't suit our needs.
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" Trump's legal team seems confident that the American people will be appeased by this sleight of hand and that it will satisfy the much-discussed emoluments clause of the U.S. constitution which states: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
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In some ways the SDF is living on borrowed time; what makes that potentially tragic is the sleight-of-hand Turkey has achieved, visiting its military solution not just on the SDF (with its acknowledged YPG backbone and that group's diffuse ideological affiliations with the PKK) but on the innocent Kurdish population that lived in hundreds of villages in this northern area — along with Muslim and Christian Arabs — common people who live, farm, keep shops, and go to school in this border area.
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It is an amazing display of disingenuous and cynical political sleight of hand that, in a week in which America has seen death and maiming delivered rapid-fire in the most deadly mass shooting of Americans in modern history, the NRA grudgingly agrees that some regulation of these devices is OK. And, you should best believe and know that they will be at the negotiating table with Congress trying to make those regulations as lenient as possible, because that's what they do!
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While Villaseñor reiterates prior claims that Lyft misrepresented how customer funds were being distributed to drivers, it digs even deeper into Lyft's alleged propensity to engage in "sleight-of-hand" with its fares:When a customer requests a ride, the Lyft computer checks its database and determines fare by reference to the Lyft database of average competing taxi fares, whether computed by time, distance, or a combination of the two; then adjusts its price accordingly, which results in a fare averaging 30% less than the average predicted taxi fare.
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