Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone puts the shot or how high someone pole vaults, the four-minute miler will be the hero of track and field. Even though dozens of runners have broken four minutes since Bannister and the world record is now an impossible 3:51.1, four minutes remains the magic mark, the measure of the miler's mettle. And everyone seems to think that one of these days either Baker or Shaw or both of them will hit that mark...
PANTAGLEIZE is Michel de Ghelderode's inventive celebration of the individual "unfit for anything except love, friendship and ardor," and a condemnation of our "autodisintegrated age." The APA production projects much of the excitement and magic typical of the Belgian playwright...
...conclusion that he would succeed handsomely. His enigmatic painting evoked objects seen in the round, and his bottles, painted in the forms of women, are among the most cherished talismans of the 1930s. The eight sculptures employ ideas Magritte previously used in his paintings, gaining solidity without loss of magic. La Folie des Grandeurs derives from a 1947 fantasy showing three women's torsos, each set implausibly one inside the other. Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch, in a grisly parody of Madame Recamier...
...Borges and Us" provides an audience just beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next question may be irrelevant." Borges: "I enjoy irrelevant questions.... The answers are irrelevant, so the questions have to be irrelevant also...
...called by the embassy staff, won no plaudits for such stunts as wading barefoot in a paddyfield or carrying sacks of cement on his head at a dam construction site. Nonetheless, he achieved a remarkable rapport with Nehru, a man who, he says, was "touched with magic." He also performed with great, still unappreciated distinction during the 1962 Chinese border invasion. "The Indians panicked," says one former assistant. "They just didn't know what to do, and for about two days Galbraith held that government together almost singlehanded...