Word: harks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 and effortless demonstrations of false dealing and three-card monte technique, Jay delivers a limber-fingered course in magic history and gambling ploys...
Frustrated at doing police work by the book, detective Wade Preston likes to hark back to the cops he idolizes: "Baretta, Starsky and Hutch, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin -- those guys had fun!" His partner replies impatiently, "Those are TV cops. They're not real." Whines the TV junkie: "Who says everything has to be real...
...Heat" at 6:05 and 9:35 on Monday, Nov. 22. Vamps and other Lesbians: Vampire Lovers: Lesbians in the Horror Film presentation at 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 23. From Hong Kong: The Films of Tsui Hark: "Peking Opera Blues" at 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday...
...Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda" at 5:45 and 9:35 Vamps and Other Lesbians: "Pandora's Box" at 4 and 7:30 p.m., "A Fool There Was" at 6 p.m. and "It" at 9:30 p.m. From Hong Kong: The Films of Tsui Hark: "Once Upon a Time in China...
...conditions that seemed quite ordinary only a few years -- or a few decades -- earlier. The heavy precipitation that fell in the West last Christmas, for example, seemed like a return to the rainy winters of the early 1980s, before the recent drought set in. Similarly, hurricanes like Andrew may hark back to the storms that lashed the East Coast in the 1940s and '50s. As strange as the weather may seem this week, it hasn't produced anything like the tale of the tornado that traveled over a Southern lake in the 1950s, moved a few miles inland, and then...