Word: houdini
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...comic in the hands of other writers. The creation bounces around from firm to firm—but each company that takes on the project soon finds itself filing for bankruptcy. Perhaps there is something inherently flawed in the idea of a character who is a cut-rate Houdini knockoff representing an organization called The Golden Key battling the evil forces of The Iron Chain...
...restraints were critically misused in more than 70% of the studied cases. The high-tech TattleTale Smart Car Seat ($170 to $230; smartchild seat.com employs sensors to check whether the seat is installed correctly and provides verbal confirmation ("Buckle fastened, vehicle belt tight") when it is. If your little Houdini likes to unfasten a restraint now and again, you might hear, "Warning: child climbing out." The seat's batteries run for up to four years, but don't worry about remembering to change them. When they run low, the TattleTale will tell you. --By Wilson Rothman
...seedy) also says something about the duo who met and perfected their invention as Stanford grad students. They chose optimistic, feel-good language - vague and disarming at first blush, but when the trick works, it?s as if those two kids in the den have just pulled off Houdini?s escape from a water torture cell...
Gross and Shah then raced to see who could first accomplish a Houdini-like escape from their restraints, to the amusement and laughter of the onlookers...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story...