Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CELEBRATION, by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the co-creators of The Fantasticks, is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood. Potemkin, a master of ceremonies winningly played by Keith Charles, presides over a land of enchantment peopled by a handsome blond Orphan, a crestfallen Angel, a bored and impotent Mr. Rich and a group of Revelers. With a straight melodic line and the unpretentiously apt lyrics of the songs, the play is one of those good things that come in small packages...
...statement contained no mention of the law-and-order campaign slogan. "These troubles have been long building," Nixon said. In part, he blamed them on failures in education, racial prejudice and the explosive pressures of rapid social adjustments, adding: "I wish I could report that we had produced a magic formula that would end crime and sweep away despair overnight. We have...
...Britons, surprisingly, compare the victorious Nixon favorably with Jack Kennedy. "Many of the country's troubles arose from the unfulfilled expectations aroused by John F. Kennedy's magic words. The U.S. avoided this mistake in 1968. No American saw Richard Nixon as a political superman. He had no magic. He would not set America's sights too high, and in that he might well achieve more for his country than all the visionaries...
...miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a cornered rabbit. Hoffman has been swimming backward in it like a lobster. To Mia, life is colored with pastels and studded with magic stones; to Hoffman, it is a black-and-white documentary. She can skip down Manhattan's Third Avenue without creating a ripple. When Hoffman is recognized, he becomes a fifth Beatle; every night outside his dressing room is a hard day's night. Girls choke up and babble when...
...father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio when I was nine. The whole family had to be evacuated, and all my things burned. Even my magic box, full of things that were magical...