Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS INTERPLAY of tension and relief that saves Pippin time after time just after the viewer thinks the players have gone too far. The magic of Pippin is that--while confronting you with war, sex, disillusionment, love and politics--the play has the perspective to remind its audience that, "after all, this is only a musical comedy...
...overflow crowd packed the seats behind Hemenway's court an hour before the match in anticipation of the first meeting in college competition between the 1977 men's national champ--Page--and the collegiate champ--Desaulniers. What the crowd witnessed was a one-man magic show, as Desaulniers mystified Page with some of his brilliant shotmaking while munching on Page's assortment of shots as if they were so many smoked baby clams...
...essence of the surrealist enterprise - like that of the 19th century romantics - was to open new channels for the creative mind. It produced, above all, an art of subject matter - a trait transmitted to its American offspring, abstract expressionism. "Beauty will be erotic-veiled, explosive-fixed, magic-circumstantial, or it will not be at all," ran Breton's famous description of the surrealist ideal. Much of the power of surrealist rhetoric does not survive translation: its use of blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when...
...would have been a magical evening--except there was no magic. I had been trying to find Allen Ginsberg for a couple of months, and I had just learned that night that he was in Cambridge to do a poetry reading at Passim...
Tied at 77-all with New Orleans entering the fourth quarter, the Celts simply ran out of their magic in the opening six minutes of that frame as the Jazz ran off 15 points to the Bostonians' four...