Word: enchantment
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...Then he pauses. “They’re tricks, not illusions,” he says. Founded in 2001, the Magic Society currently counts about half a dozen active members, each an expert in a different kind of magic. On Saturday, the group will enchant audiences both young and old with their craft in the annual Arts First Magic Show. The group has talent, Miller says, and past shows have been very successful. “It is always a lot of fun,” he says. Members lose and find coins and cards in ways that...
...Birth,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “War of the Worlds,” for example—I had thought that I, being a bright, creative person, would have no trouble fashioning a story that would enchant audiences...
...captivate us as much for their many errors as for what they got right. Thus Kenneth Nebenzahl's Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2,000 Years of Exploring the East, an elegant compilation of many of history's finest?if arrestingly flawed?cartographic specimens, cannot help but enchant. Its dozens of plates offer fodder for hours of visual grazing...
...want to. But look, it's not art. It's a head trip. You could argue, in fact, that the IMAX Polar Express returns movies to their most primitive beginnings, when the simple act of realistically capturing motion on a screen--narrative subtlety be damned--was sufficient to thrill, enchant and totally involve an audience. By that crude standard, this film is an experience not to be missed. Or, perhaps, repeated. --By Richard Schickel
...enchant him with her caddying skills? Was she the first gal who got his Fuzzy Zoeller jokes? One can only speculate as to what really attracted TIGER WOODS, 27, to Swedish former swimsuit model ELIN NORDEGREN, 23. Woods proposed to Nordegren at a game reserve in South Africa last week, where he played in the Presidents Cup. Sport's most eligible bachelor met his fiance two years ago while she was an au pair for a fellow golfer. Around that time, Woods' father predicted his son wouldn't marry before age 30, saying, "A wife can sometimes be a deterrent...