Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE RELIGIOUS OVERTONES represent a new twist to the familiar pattern of Hollywood occult and science-fiction. Their space heroes don't win their battles with zap-guns alone; they've got to have the force. Magic spells cannot kill their monsters--the mother has to conquer them with the strength of her faith and love of family. As for their creatures from outer space, they cannot drop dead without being swiftly resurrected...
...years, Bernard Malamud has been talking like a novelist engagé. Much of his fiction has explored Jewish "ethicality," which he defines as "how Jews felt they had to live in order to go on living." In 1958, the year he published his National Book Award-winning stories, The Magic Barrel, he said, quoting Albert Camus: "The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." He has deplored the self-devaluation of modern man that springs from his having invented the means of his own extinction. It is no surprise, then, that his eighth novel deals with...
...shades that stalk this play are the primal spirits of guilt and corruption, blinding faith and annihilating morality. Fate is the conjurer that commands them all to appear, but it is the blameful black magic of repression that sets them free to destroy. Most tragedies are about the fall from grace, but Ibsen, in Ghosts, wrote about something rather different and, for its time (1881), revolutionary: the absence of grace, the force of destiny when truth is hidden...
...million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange in the five days ending Aug. 20, an even more spectacular 550 million shares changed hands last week. Before the current rally, the stock exchange had never had a 100 million-share day. Last week trading volume topped that magic mark four consecutive times. The peak of 138 million shares on Thursday shattered the one-day record of 132.7 million that had been set only eight days earlier. Average daily volume before the current spree had been only 52.3 million shares. Says Donald Iseman, a partner in the Neuberger & Berman...
...near Lake Placid, N.Y. Simmons conducted at England's prestigious Glyndebourne Festival and led many of the major orchestras in the U.S. He gained acclaim for his dynamism and adventurous programming. This month he was to have conducted a work of his favorite composer, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the New York City Opera. Said Beverly Sills: "Cal had so much to offer. I just can't take...