Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astounding lighting design by Jon Monderer does more than any other one element to give Lachow's spaces their sinuous magic. Rimming a long swing that sweeps a child in and out of view, shining up through two rectangular-grills to denote barracks for Woyzeck and a comrade. Monderer's lights and shadows and hellish pink sunsets need no narrative to make them shocking. Now and then they steal the center of attention completely, and Woyzeck becomes a story told entirely in light, without words, an aural equivalent of the children's show Laserium. Words here do not tell, they...
...neat, Northern California bedroom, a bespectacled 16-year-old who calls himself Marc communicates with several hundred unauthorized "tourists" on a computer magic carpet called ARPANET. This $3.3 million computer network maintained by the Defense Department provides a link between key contractors, but ARPANET has become a pen pal club, dating service and electronic magazine for youngsters and other computer hitchhikers gifted enough to join what is in effect a huge, electronic message service. In fact, TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz, working on a terminal near San Francisco, interviewed a teenage tourist in San Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc...
...Magic is Paul's only interest. The play opens and closes with one of his tricks, an illuminated lightbulb floating magically to the ceiling and back down again. Paul has no goal other than to practice, timidly stammering that he isn't ready to perform, but after a chance meeting with a talent manager his mother pushes him onto the stage. He fails his audition miserably, tripping over himself and botching endlessly practiced tricks. But the occasion sparks a brief romance between Enid and the manager, Jerry Wexler. The moment doesn't last, of course; it only brings the tired...
...downgrade yourself," his mother constantly nags. "A hundred and forty-eight IQ is genius." But Paul hangs his head, stutters and complains that the people and the walls are closing in at school. So he doesn't go and spends hours gazing at the wonders in the magic store...
...Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined the region until now. His Montana has none of the romantic magic of Zane Grey's glowing hills. In Nobody's Angel the sky is harsh, the mountains formidable, the rivers icebound. The town of Deadrock (read Livingston) is the focal point of this austere landscape. Here station wagons are parked where horses once were loosely tied...