“She did, too, by the simple expedient of precariously balancing a champagne glass half-on-half-off a table when she made her exit. The ingenue came on for her big scene, but all eyes were glued to the glass: would it or would it not fall off the table?
“No one knew that she had put sticky tape on the bottom of the glass.”
Roger Kimball, American Greatness, August 20, 2023