Strangely enough, the band Metallica used the phrase as the title of a DVD in 1998.
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:39:38 -0500
> From: NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU
> Subject: [NABOKV-L] Cunning Stunts in Transparent Things
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
>
> I tried to search the Archives and was surprised to discover that no one
> seems to have commented on the spooneristic nature of the title of the
> play that Hugh and Julia go to see in Transparent Things (chapter 11),
> Cunning Stunts. I'm quite sure though that I was not the first one who
> noticed it.
>
> Alexey
>
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