Word: illusioners
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A paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
The theater is a medium of illusion, and among the dreams it fosters is that the clock can be turned back and the ravages of time denied. Film and TV close-ups reveal the smallest encroachments of age; the stage keeps a civilized distance between seemingly ageless performers and happily...
RONALD REAGAN was reelected in November primarily because many Americans believed that the economy was in better shape after his first four years than it had been before. But much of that perception is an illusion which Reagan created with a series of unprecendented budget deficits.
These interruptions by artifice amount to rips in the backdrop, allowing a glimpse of props and klieg lights. Circumstance and illusion twinkle briefly, then everything is as it was--or is it? Readers of Nabokov's fiction have been here many times before, but it is diverting to imagine the...
Yet among many doctors--especially Nathanson's fellow obstetricians--the film has provoked an outcry. "The problem is that it is factually misleading and unfair," says Dr. Richard Berkowitz, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York City's Mount Sinai Medical Center. Special effects may further the deception, according...