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  • s  marked by skill in deception

  • Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin.
  • Then the "tricksy" son died.
  • Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer: "I am going through an extremely tricksy situation of trying to recover and get strong again after a lengthy illness.
News & Articles

  • Facebook Graph Search Let Dev Scrape Thousands of Public Phone Numbers
    It looks like all our Graph Search privacy concerns weren't just the ravings of a paranoid, tinfoil-hat-wearing lunatic. Using Facebook's new comprehensive search tool, a tricksy little dev was able to compile a database holding thousands of Facebook users' personal phone numbers. Read more...        
    June 24, 2013 - Gizmodo
Quotes

  • Tony McGuinness in Times Online
    McGuinness mentions that the turntable feels "a little loose" and points out that, so far, the game seems to focus on hip-hop style and methods. "Tricksy stuff, mixing between records in the middle, scratching at the end. But for the purposes...
  • Anthony Holden in Santa Fe New Mexican
    Such personal touches as Maazel comes up with are as banal as obvious: a solo violin for poignancy, growling B-movie brass for mounting menace, percussive effects for tricksy detail,Holden wrote.

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