A high-tech way to walk the Wall is with the Mauerguide, a nifty hand-held minicomputer that maps its course via GPS and provides intelligent commentary and historic audio and video.
The niftiest hands in the tournament probably belong to an American, Patrick Kane.
In SMOKE AND PICKLES: Recipes and Stories From a New Southern Kitchen (Artisan, $29.95), Edward Lee pulls off a nifty sleight of hand, insinuating flavors and techniques from a variety of Asian cuisines into down-home Southern food, a move that comes naturally to him as a Korean-American planted behind the stove at 610 Magnolia, his Louisville restaurant.
A nifty sleight of hand is also apparent in the characterisation, where Paul Dano's Pierre Leo Tolstoyoy's vessel for longwinded political tangents in the book – has been successfully transformed into a comical ladushka about town, necking fine champagne and destroying palaces in the name of toff hedonism.
The otherwise naturalistic script offers nifty theatrical sleight of hand when a child services employee, also played by Mr. Everidge, stops by.
Parked behind that navigation screen, however, is a nifty touch: a hand-held GPS unit that pops out for portable use.
PowderMed caught Pfizer's eye because of its nifty helium-powered, hand-held device that delivers vaccines by firing DNA-laced gold particles into the skin.
The reason most people can't name these sellers of products specifically engineered to kill as fast as possible is one of the niftiest sleights of hand in commercial history.
The best parts of the evening come from the principal cast, who seem to be members of the Rudetsky B'way Circle on the one hand and nifty farceurs on the other.
Mr. Lepage does supply some nifty directorial sleight-of-hand, as when two white sheets slide slowly across the stage to indicate a thin layer of snowfall.
The leader in handing out nifty stuff is usually Scion, which in the past has provided hats, sunglasses and key chains.
