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...Angeles, the Magic Castle, an eleven-year-old theater-restaurant devoted to the art and craft of legerdemain, is enjoying its most successful year. Says Resident Card Wizard Charles Miller, "Magic is surging; the rewards are better both financially and what you might call soul filling. Even the oldtimers are better." In North Hollywood, Magician Mark Wilson employs a full-time staff of 20 to devise and build special effects to astound audiences at conventions and trade shows...
Hayes is large, but no one could truthfully call him imposing, and the movie was made without benefit of craft, care or wit. This does not seem to have bothered Hayes or anyone else. Only the director appears to have sensed the savage stupidity of this material, but his idea of a corrective is to make fun of it. That is a little like making gags at the expense of your own deformity...
...Nixon-Brezhnev summit, Salyut 3 was subsequently boarded July 4 by the two cosmonauts for what appeared to be a two-week stay. The Americans were most interested in the Soyuz spacecraft that the cosmonauts used to reach the orbiting space station. Soyuz is the same type of ferry craft that the Russians will launch next July in a space-age milestone: the linkup of a U.S. and a Soviet spaceship in the first international manned space mission...
...first portion, Beyond Words. He is an engaging mime with a bouyantly-light and sure feeling for comedy. He makes his varied talents readily plain during the nine short sketches of classical mime which combine to make Beyond Words the perfect introduction to this too-long ingnored stage craft. Dressed in clown's costume and white face, working without props and only occasionally with music, Martin almost miraculously manages to create a palpable world out of nothing but his own imagination...
...Government. Going back to his days as a young Congressman, he has been quicker than most politicians to question the motives of those who cross him. The lack of understanding has been mutual. Reporters are accustomed to dealing with evasiveness in politicians; poking behind facades is part of their craft. But as most reporters try to figure out Nixon, one facade seems only to hide another. Not only journalists but many Republican politicians are put off by a quality that comes across variously as insincerity, awkwardness, lack of genuine warmth. It would be disingenuous to argue that a certain visceral...