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...political life on the model of death-and-resurrection. He wraps himself in chains and padlocks, has himself sealed into a trunk and thrown off the Tallahatchee Bridge; the bubbles rise, the minutes pass, the crowd waits, breathless.... until, at last, up pops Bill, bright as a dime, the Houdini from Hope. The real question is whether Hillary partakes of the magic in her own right...
...made his egress during a live ABC special that included quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and beefcake shots of the mystifier atop a volcano. With cameras jostling for shots, Blaine, Rocky-style, called for his girlfriend and gave her a kiss before being whisked off in an ambulance. Houdini would have been proud. Houdini's publicist would have been prouder...
...Edie Adams B Jamie Lee Curtis C Harry Houdini D Thomas Jefferson E Hedy Lamarr F Abraham Lincoln G Zeppo Marx H Paul Revere I Lillian Russell J Mark Twain...
...Kavalier, a Czech war refugee, and his American-born cousin Sammy Clay are the novel's protagonists. They create a comic-book crusader known as the Escapist, an unabashed projection of Kavalier's revenge fantasies. A young artist with Harry Houdini's ability to pick locks while holding his breath, Kavalier has escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by hiding in a coffin containing the mythic Golem of Prague, and yearns to make enough money to help his family flee Adolph Hitler, or Attila Haxoff as Kavalier's overly cautious boss at Empire Comics insists on calling the dictator...
...read while she was recovering from a car accident. As her run of bad luck would have it, she was later trapped inside her house as it burned down. Recalling the book's advice on "How to Break Down a Door," she kicked the lock and made like Houdini. True story or MacGyver fantasy? You just never know...