Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Luce called it "picture magic," that remarkable ability of a good photograph to capture an event or distill an emotion, to amaze, inspire, instruct and even repulse. Luce started LIFE in 1936 to harness that ephemeral power, and the weekly picture magazine became in its heyday publishing's most successful venture. But eventually television, postal costs and the magazine's own swollen circulation caused its demise, in 1972. This week Time Inc. is introducing a born-again LIFE with a larger version of the familiar red and white logo, a fractionally smaller version of the spacious LIFE-size format...
...convey the continuing sense that this new LIFE, like the old one, is deeply involved with the world it covers, that its capacity for wonder, conviction and caring is as big as ever . . . This is a different magazine, but there is still just one answer for us: 'picture magic' again...
...Magic number for Phils...
...Philadelphia Phillies reduced their magic number to four in the National League East last night when Larry Bowa singled home the winning run in a 3-2, 12-inning victory over Montreal...
...before the wrinkles set in and the double chin appeared. When she looked me in the eye I saw why she was going to Memphis. Her eyes shone with a memory and a question. She needed proof. She wanted either to see Elvis and light up the old magic one more time, or see his grave and know finally and for certain that the magic was over. "It's almost like I want to find out that he's not really dead, that he will be there in his mansion and nothing will have changed," Janey said. "Elvis...