Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest geopolitical obscurity (Yugoslavia's Ivo Andric, 1961). But the prize need not be a disgrace: a writer can rise above it. Saul Bellow (Nobel, 1976) has managed. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) has done what the greatest and liveliest usually do: he has made a world, a lost, magic place fall of God and demons and strange, tumbling life...
...Outside Los Angeles' Cinerama Dome theater, a young woman on crutches stands patiently for 90 minutes, waiting to buy a ticket. Outside a theater in Washington, D.C., an elegant couple keeps cool by sipping tangerine daiquiris. Inside every theater there is applause as two names that certify movie magic appear on the screen: Steven Spielberg and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. One Boston man in his 20s exults: "This is our generation's Wizard of Oz." In Atlanta, two schoolgirls are still sobbing as they leave the theater, then segue into a spirited argument over who cried more. Back...
...alltime box-office champ"-in real dollars, Gone With the Wind is still No. 1-but even these days, a projected worldwide gross of $400 million is decent money. So why the boom in so many movies? And why now? Spielberg, the 34-year-old boy who wove the magic carpet of E. T. (as well as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark, all among the ten top grossers in movie history), sees a simple explanation: "A good film is kidnaped by its audience. And this summer the industry is giving people...
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size...
...Well is a difficult play, partly because it embraces tantalizing contradictions. It is romantic and antiromantic. It is rational in discourse, yet a strange current of magic, mystery and folklore courses through it. Even its lovers are drawn to each other only as opposites. Helena (Harriet Walter) is deep, pure and singleminded; Bertram (Philip Franks) is shallow, lecherous and two-faced...