Life Savers by Michael Weber

An incredible selection of impromptu miracles for those times you’re unexpectedly asked to “do a trick.”

Michael Weber’s collection of techniques and routines that can be performed with ordinary materials indigenous to particular locations. These routines can be quickly improvised in a variety of locations (the office, restaurants, bars, friends’ homes, or just out on the town).

Contents:
Improvised vs. Impromptu: An introduction by way of definition.

The Expert at the Dinner Table:

• You’re Uri
• Coffee Machine
• Hiding McBride
• A Man for All Seasonings
• Tear for Two (Ray Kosby)
• Hot Production Item
• Off the Deep End
• Change of Seasons
• Sub-Strategy
  
  Object Lessons:
• Swatch This
• The One-Two Punch
• Moxie
• Thoughts of Tom Jacobsen
• Down With Safety
• An End to Pindemonium
• Knot the Truth
• Knocked for a Loop
• Offhand Penetration
  
  Little or Nothing:
• Working Without a Grant
• 5 Cent Ring on Stick
• Q-tip
• Powers of Dimness
• Penny Candy (Eric Maurin)
• The Laying on of Hands
• Crosswords
• Directory AssistantsBy One’s Own Devices:
• Satan’s Serviette
• United Divinations
• Improvised Pulls
• The Wrigley Device
• Flame Thrower
  
  On Location:
• Undercover Transposition
• To Feed Many
• The Cap in the Bottle
• Sight of Hand
• Dispensed Deception
• Appealing Illusion
• Just the Fax
• The Ship in the Bottle
• 20th Century Ten
  
  Special Effects:
• A better Mousetrap
• Stretching It
• Four Dollars in ChangePages 165  164– Hardbound and Illustrated