Word: illusionistic
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...also, as he has said, the face of a "heavily doped Chinese illusionist" -a perfect Noel Coward characterization of the sort of facial urbanity one wears to prize-givings. At one dinner party, Earl Mountbatten of Burma actually calculated that Coward had written 27 plays and 281 songs, and Sir Laurence Olivier called him "utterly unspoiled." The Coward eyebrows uncocked a bit, the eyes glanced sideways, and the words hummed forth on the wings of a bee: "That's what you think." He rose to reply to the tributes at a midnight gala in his honor: "I am awfully...
...style derives from both decorative Oriental and primitive art and illusionist painting. He may lift details from lace sleeves he has seen in a Flemish masterwork at the Metropolitan Museum and expand them into blown-up patterns, offset these with gingham checks from his wife's summer dress, and counterpoint both with huge pointillist dots. The results look like an explosion in a fabrics factory or a rabbit-hole view of a Wonderland garden...
Died. Harry Blackstone, 80, U.S. magician, a master illusionist who described magic as "nothing but psychology," brought new excitement to the old now-you-see-it-now-you-don't school when, performing at the White House in 1926, he pickpocketed a revolver from Calvin Coolidge's bodyguard, and became one of the giants in the field with his own line of spectacular tricks, featuring a donkey vanishing onstage and a rope climber disappearing in a cloud of smoke; of uremia; in Hollywood...
Conflict with the United States is only a by-product--perhaps not a necessary one--of the French president's essentially pedagogical objective: "to teach his people and perhaps his continent attitudes of independence and self-reliance," Kissinger says in an article entitled "The Illusionist: Why We Misread de Gaulle...
...Even her fellow pros find it hard to explain. When pressed, one actor fumbled, made several tries, then suggested: "Gerry is never ahead. She is always reacting as if she did not know what the other actor was going to say." It may not be real life, but no illusionist can come closer than that...