The company's success, together with Mr. McKenna's artful manipulation of the press, convinced Mr. Jobs he was a genius.

I'd often remarked that Frank had kept the Berlin establishment absurdly high, but now I was reaping some of the rewards of his artful manipulations.

But tomorrow at the Donnell Library Center they will be out in the open, revealed not by the turning of pages but by the artful manipulation of figures and strings.

"The mechanics of drinking and the psychology of thirst are beautifully conveyed through the artful manipulation of limbs and the carefully constructed head."

"The masterminds in this case hid their illegal acts through artful manipulation of expert opinion," the report said.

Daniel Lefcourt's video piece ingeniously makes a crowd of pedestrians out of a single person by artful technical manipulation.

By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations.

The site described his script for All the President's Men as a "model of storytelling clarity ... and artful manipulation".

However, it ceased to be the cause for moral reflection or insight, but rather an "object of play and artful manipulation".

And, after all, it is finer to kill a strong man with a clean- slicing blow of singing steel than to make a beast of him, and of his seed through the generations, by the artful and spidery manipulation of industry and politics.