Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine lieutenant from South Dakota with a spotty athletic history, Billy Mills, now 44, came from nowhere to win the 10,000-meter run at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. In the long tradition of turning athletic accomplishment into movie magic, Mills' story is being beamed to the screen in Running Brave. (Mills is a Sioux Indian; running brave, get it?) For the movie, due out next year, Actor Robby Benson, 26 (The Chosen), ran five miles a day for three months. "Runners have a certain look about them," says Benson, "and there's no way to cheat...
Look, no legwork! The insidious magic of shopping by mail and phone...
...great composers of the day, among them Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Grieg. His successor Arthur Nikisch, who led the Philharmonic from 1895 to 1922, inspired a rapturous comment from the demanding Tchaikovsky. "He doesn't conduct," said the composer. "He seems to surrender himself to some mysterious magic force." Wilhelm Furtwängler instilled in the orchestra a sense of musical adventure, leading mercurial performances that unfolded with an unsurpassed sense of discovery for some 30 years...
Milingo's critics accuse him, in effect, of being a kind of Catholic witch doctor who is reinforcing faith in tribal magic when he should be promoting modern medicine. The archbishop's opponents have also charged him with neglect of his administrative duties. A group of African bishops in 1978 ordered a halt to Milingo's healings. When he persisted, the Vatican finally summoned him to Rome...
...last night Fishman kept Princeton funs on the edge of their seats for nearly 108 minutes before once again working his magic With the game knotted at one in the second over time period: the Tiger striker took a pass from teammate Paul Khoury, seampered around Crimson fullback Many Sabelli, and sure-footedly blasted the ball to the left of goalie Phil Coogan, 'sealing a 2-1 victory for the Orange and Black...