But for Beatty, born of a brazen age in the shadows of the spotlights, the underlying story is about power, about the iron hand concealed in the velvet glove.
The scandal started to blow up after Pepper released a controversial "prank" video, in which he uses a fake hand concealed inside a large hoodie to pinch the arses of some women in the street.
One of Albert's dressing gowns was placed by her side, with a plaster cast of his hand, while a lock of John Brown's hair, along with a picture of him, was placed in her left hand concealed from the view of the family by a carefully positioned bunch of flowers.
Free of the scarf for part of the performance, she soars, only to end as she began, her head covered, her hands concealing tears.
"If they want to go to school, that's cool," Mr. Sullivan said, struggling to light a cigarette, his hands concealed beneath black gloves.
Mr Miliband is making a similar bid to get economically insecure voters on his side.And the Labour leader's sleight of hand conceals both caution and vagueness.
A brown standing sagittal partition (approximately 45 × 65 cm) was positioned so that the participants could see only the rubber hand while their own right hand was concealed from view (i.e. the participants' right arm was placed on the right side of the partition and the rubber hand was placed on the opposite side).
Those from Nayarit seem more stolid, like the "Standing Female Figure," above, with vertical stripes painted on the lower half of her face, who holds up a cup in her right hand, her miniskirt half concealing a pair of thick legs firmly planted on two flat feet.
Bend down with one side away from the audience and quickly pick up the paper with the front hand and at the same moment with your back hand quickly conceal (hide) the cut dollar and get the uncut dollar (practice to be quick and adroit in making the switch).
