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Word: magic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what famous male star appears in drag in the title role? If you answer Lassie to both questions, you will be given instant directions to Radio City Music Hall, where thousands of kids are laughing and crying every day at the trials of Hollywood's top dog in The Magic of Lassie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lassie's Back | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...here to begin with or they've already taken the hint and taken off, find yourself some lunch and maybe go shopping for a while for room provisions. Go to Harvard Student Agencies and rent a refrigerator. Go see the folks at New England Telephone about getting a magic communicator-box. But don't get sheets from HSA--bring your...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Welcome to Freshman Week--How About a Game of Catch? | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...impression, gained from going through Jefferson's home many times... is not quite the same as Professor Peterson's. What impressed the visitors ... was the 'Yankee' ingenuity of various tricks and utensils about the place, rather than the place itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Language | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...Laser Magic--Future City. Cool if you're in the mood, or can get yourself in the mood for a laser son et lumiere spectacular. Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Friday at 9:30, 10:45, Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODDS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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