Word: illusionistic
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...free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...
...walks down Dunster Street, Joshua L. Oppenheimer '96-'97 looks like a slinky. His shoulders, acting in unison with his hips, wave back and forth as his whole body sways with each step. Wearing a tattered, green tweed blazer, Oppenheimer hardly looks the part of a master illusionist...
Avery's mad movies were about movement--motion exploded into violent emotion. In Magical Maestro an illusionist transforms an opera singer into a ballerina, an Indian, a widdle boy, a Hawaiian war chanter. As a wolf spies Red Hot Riding Hood, his tongue springs out zigzaggy and his eyes pop out in sections like a dozen contact lenses. No director, of cartoons or live action, vacuum-packed his gags as tightly as Avery...
...sense, the millennium is Bill Clinton's larger theater; for him there is a balm in chiliad. World War II, of course, was no illusion. The millennium is a sort of hallucination--the calendar's neverland. That's all right; Bill Clinton is a magnificent illusionist...
What does a man who has a flourishing career, untold millions and one of the world's most lusted-after fiances need? How about the Batmobile? Illusionist DAVID COPPERFIELD bought the vehicle anonymously at auction for $189,599. So eager was Claudia Schiffer's betrothed to purchase the hot wheels from 1989's Batman that he paused during a show in Raleigh, North Carolina, and bid from the stage. Why? Surely not because of its alleged female-magnetic properties. "I live in a bat cave right now," says Copperfield, whose taste runs to the gothic. "So I might as well...