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  • Trust, originality and morality rank among this trickster's quarry, in projects that unpick what goes on behind the scenes in art.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • It's pretty clear that Revkin does not have the depth to see the rocks in the trickster's arguments.

    Archive 2010-03-01 EliRabett 2010

  • It's pretty clear that Revkin does not have the depth to see the rocks in the trickster's arguments.

    Andy Revkin, out in the cold EliRabett 2010

  • You would be as well occupied in trying to persuade Moonies or Scientologists that they might possibly be mistaken in their beliefs, or in appealing to a confidence trickster's allegedly better nature.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Osprey: Emily Levine: A trickster's theory of everything

    TED Talks Challenge Young Geoffrion 2009

  • Osprey: Emily Levine: A trickster's theory of everything

    Archive 2009-04-01 HeadBurro Antfarm 2009

  • But in his personal life, as often happens when people get older, some of the old trickster's masks began to harden on the face.

    The Lessons of the Master Buruma, Ian 2008

  • And Bush's popular vote was only 51 percent (forget that trickster's line about "more popular votes ..."), far from a landslide.

    Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: The American People 2004

  • And the trickster's luck had run out that September morning, for the combined impact and burning and collapse of over a hundred stories of steel and concrete and wires and windows and office desks and telephones and computers into a pile of rubble five or six stories high meant his brother was probably just dust, dust floating over what was now called Ground Zero.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • And the trickster's luck had run out that September morning, for the combined impact and burning and collapse of over a hundred stories of steel and concrete and wires and windows and office desks and telephones and computers into a pile of rubble five or six stories high meant his brother was probably just dust, dust floating over what was now called Ground Zero.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

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