Word: abracadabras
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Director Gamboa and producer Lawrence Switzky have done a magnificent job of it, however; this production of A Winter’s Tale has abracadabra-ed its way to success...
...part-time party favor salesman. As Kate prepares supper, Blanche struggles with her asthma and tries not to be dependent upon the family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled liver and mashed potatoes...
...that Mike Bezos donated, while Jeff tapped out a business plan on a laptop. On that road trip West, somewhere near the Grand Canyon, Bezos called a lawyer who specialized in start-ups. What do you plan to call your company, the lawyer asked. Bezos liked the sound of Abracadabra, but the word was a little long. "So I said, 'Cadabra,'" he recalls. "Cadaver?" repeated the lawyer. A few weeks later, Bezos changed the name to Amazon Inc., after the seemingly endless South American river...
...beginning, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [or Philosopher's Stone, as it was originally named], written by a previously unknown author named J. (for Joanne) K. Rowling, appeared in Britain in June 1997 as a juvenile-fiction title. Abracadabra! it careered to the top of the adult best-seller lists. The same eerie thing happened when the book was published September...
Every age must develop its own version of the unobtainable and chimerical quick fix: the right abracadabra to select the winning lottery number, the proper prayer to initiate the blessed millennium, the correct formula to construct the philosopher's stone. In a technological age, we seek the transforming gene to elicit immediate salvation from within...