If Microsoft tries any of its old tricks, it should be punished.
And when the Ark must do its mystic tricks it sprouts poltergeists that recall the impish flying saucers of "Close Encounters" without living up to them.
The turning circle of the Nano -- about 13 feet -- is undoubtedly one of its best parlor tricks; it is nearly capable of doing a 360-degree turn in its own tiny shadow.
Because, while it may have seemed as if the programme had long since exhausted its box of tricks, it has only just discovered Sinitta.
Laden with a variety of expensive stage tricks, it was forced to cancel its first two previews in October because of technical problems.
That's why the NFL should lose its exemption, no matter how little money it brings in or how many accounting tricks it ends up using to minimise its bill.
Tata's rivals may be able to free-ride on its efforts, copying the cost-cutting tricks it had to discover through painstaking trial and error.
Like all confidence tricks it depends on the gullibility of the mark for its continued success.
So with 11 guaranteed tricks, it was an underbid.
