Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insecure about its legitimacy, in the eyes of both its own people and the rest of the world. For the men in the Kremlin, the very assertion of equal status with the U.S. was its own reward. Its value increased manyfold when the U.S. was willing to enshrine the magic word equality in the communiques issued at summits and the prologues to SALT treaties and accords that Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter signed with Leonid Brezhnev between...
...matter, are Saturday nights in bathhouses, or other traditional, some say less wholesome, Japanese diversions. Except for signs, which have Japanese subtitles under larger English words, there are few distinctly Japanese things about the park. Explains an Oriental Land official: "You simply have to give our Japanese patrons a magic sense of being in Orlando or Los Angeles right here." Just two of the park's 27 restaurants sell Japanese food, and they serve only sushi (raw fish with rice) and bento, a sort of Oriental box lunch. Tempura is nowhere to be found, but "spaceburgers" ($1.70), hot dogs...
...again writing fiction set in his native land and era. Ancient Evenings was his attempt to escape from the contemporary: "I wasn't sure I could really write on America any more." Attracted to Egypt originally by its burial rituals and notions of the afterlife, he found a magic in the unfamiliar: "I began to understand that these were people where everything I'd learned wasn't much help in understanding them." He estimates that he read between 50 and 100 books on his subject, but he intentionally kept his research free-form and serendipitous. He consulted...
...will not get close to Mozart," he states at the outset, and it is true Despite the interesting analysis of music and letters which pervades the text, the most frequent effect it produces is frustration--sometimes at a particularly annoying interpretation (as when Hildesheimer relegates The Magic Flute to "the lower ranks of sentiment") and sometimes simply at the inadequacy of the existing evidence on Mozart's life and thought...
March 21, 3:38 p.m.--The delivery door at Hillel House was vandalized with a magic maker. No suspicious persons were seen and no arrests have been made...