When the band played something complex, like the 13-beat rhythm he wrote into "The Snake," or a similar one written by the band's trumpeter and percussionist Richard Nant in "Chucaro" (it could be heard as 13 but broke down more exactly into three, four and two threes), it felt purposeful, not just tricky, and the audience got behind it, cheering forcefully.
It's not part of the mainstream consciousness, which leaves it as a tricky subject for audiences and comedians to find common ground.
"People might think that it's a tricky topic for audiences but in fact, it's not at all: what we're representing here is a personal journey in people's true stories, and we're designing the content so you connect with that.
Like many small businesses, the shop serves a narrow demographic — chocolate lovers who live within a few miles — and reaching its target audience is tricky.
It is tricky to generalize about audience tastes, especially as an emerging trend toward offbeat subjects and storytelling as presented in films like "Sixth Sense" and "American Beauty".
Audience is tricky: everybody wants the biggest, widest-ranging following that is possible, but if you're black, you have traditionally tended to worry about having to choose between catering to a mostly white or to a mostly black audience.
A frills-free work of theater, involving little more than an actor and his audience, "The Tricky Part" vibrates with the vertigo that descends when past and present coexist.
PS1 should be congratulated for landing a restaurant that suits the neighborhood, the museum's audience and, trickiest of all, the questing spirit of the work in its galleries.
When I put it to him that mobile messaging commerce works in Asia, but not necessarily in the U.S. — where the relatively high usage of iMessage and popularity of SMS has made it trickier to build an audience for chat apps — Chang said he was confident that Tango has what it takes to break through.
