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women were directed to meet in the lobby of the Charles Hotel at 4 p.m. the day of the tea and were asked to "R.S.V.P. Melissa Blair Fisher...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: New Women's Group Begun | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

...side by the rattle and roll of Penn & Teller and, on the other, by the glitzoramas of David Copperfield, the Jay show will seem highly unconventional, perhaps even radical. "Other magicians are more prone to showing off, to letting us see how good they are," says Jules Fisher, who did the lighting for the show and who studies magic with Jay. "But Ricky's virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted his own stage name), and, along with card manipulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricky Ricky | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...guess there's degree to which intelligenceis something you may be looking for," says WilliamF. Fisher, assistant professor of anthropology andof social studies...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: What's Your Major? Apply First, Please | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...order to maintain the quality of theprogram there's cap," says Fisher...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: What's Your Major? Apply First, Please | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...poem Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?, W.B. Yeats wrote (among other things) about the way that promising lives go wrong. For example: "Some have known a likely lad/ That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist/ Turn to a drunken journalist." Some have indeed. Pete Hamill is still a likely lad, too good to go on indulging the drunken journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taut Wire of Childhood Memory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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