Once hailed as a visionary for his structural ingenuity and sense of unblinking tragedy, his recent work has proved more divisive, with some skeptics dismissing him as a self-serious and/or limited-trick pony.
Its iPhone version (free, because of its limited abilities) tricks a user into opening a fake browser, which relays the phone's location to its rightful owner.
They're made up of a limited number of tricks (strapless top, peplum waist, mermaid hemline, tiered ruffles) that get reshuffled, rearranged, and then reintroduced, year after year.
In small doses, its sheer force can thrill; over a whole gig, Chase & Status's limited bag of tricks becomes too predictable, the beat dropping in almost exactly the same way each time.
So far, he appears to have a limited bag of tricks, but I don't get the sense that he is being given the time or attention that might help him develop into a true long-term talent.
But where her records used to sound crammed tight into a small space, stylishly and sometimes brilliantly limited by audio tricks and short-range burlesque jokes, now they're starting to intimate openness: echo, big drums, stadium choruses, eternity, making it count, living by the truth.
With them out of the picture it was just this scribbler performing for the audience like a trained seal with an extremely limited repertoire of tricks, and if anybody was watching or not is open for debate.
The "limited time offer" trick has been around in shopping forever as way to boost your sense of urgency.
It was as if the Giants were being ordered to reach into their limited bag of offensive tricks for something else.
For situations where a scanner is used under supervision, such tricks are of limited value.
