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...effects, magic that can be done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Kerr's is a performance full of remarkable detail right down to a special wide-stanced uneven gait, and the black-bordered and lace-trimmed handkerchief in which he sequesters Olivia's ring. His celebrated yellow-stocking scene is severely marred, though, by the absence of the prescribed cross-garters. What's the idea of trying to make do with a pair of ordinary bow-knotted circlets around the knees when the text refers nine times to cross-gartering? F'shame...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Twelfth Night' Opens Twentieth Season | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

MONTY PYTHON'S NEW album has three Side Twos and that's a hint that it's not one of their masterpieces. They advertise it as a "free record" you get for buying a "matching tie and handkerchief," which turns out to be a large piece of colored paper with a picture of what looks like John Mitchell strangled in his own tie. That's another hint...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Not-So-Great Snakes | 4/17/1974 | See Source »

...spot, the Continental Baths, Midler demonstrated once again that she is a superb female impersonator. Not, however, as good as Rodney Pigeon. The following night at the Blue Angel nightclub, Rodney, 20, scored a succèsfou in the French-inspired transvestite revue Zou. Hurling himself onto the pocket-handkerchief stage, the divine Miss M's carbon copy skittered and tittered while belting out Midler's theme song, Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...presidential limousine were at least a dozen bodyguards, covering every inch of the car. As he took the oath before a crammed joint session of Congress, Perón was visibly moved. His hand shook, and he quickly sat down afterward to wipe away his tears with a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Prudence over Pomp | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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