Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is the sound that a magic car makes in this slightly less than enchanting musical about a pixilated inventor (Dick Van Dyke), his two pixilated offspring and his pixilated girl friend (Sally Ann Howes...
...stories for grownups. But they rarely resemble the fables, fairy tales and romances that one remembers as a special delight of being very, very young. A new musical called Celebration dwells in just that land of enchantment. It is a charmer for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic realm of childhood...
...ends in a mood of sadness for the desolation of spirit that has fallen on the land. Yet for all his bitterness, O'Casey keeps his broad Irish sodbusters quirkily alive. Like his symbolic rooster, he weaves his own warm, life-affirming way through the play with a magic mix of phrases and cadences...
...built the edifices on which his reputation rests. One must bring to the play more than the play can possibly bring on its own: a knowledge of Nabokov's prevailing predilections. The most fundamental of these is that Nabokov has always regarded writing as an act of magic, of conjuring up rather than noting down, of producing totally unexpected rabbits from nonexistent hats...
...take place in the future, where some parents order a girl from the child supplying centre, but they get a boy instead, and won't accept the fact that the child suppliers made a mistake. The song is sung by their child. All the songs tells a story. "Magic Bus" is about a man who takes a bus to see his girl every day, and decides to buy it. "Dogs" is about a man who meets his future wife at a race-track, and later finds that she is not the perfect mate for a dog racing addict. "Tattoo...