Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, it seems as if Michael Bennett, the show's sorcerer, has borrowed Prospero's wand. He conjures up scenes of potent magic that prove as evanescent as dreams. What is palpably dazzling merges imperceptibly with razzle-dazzle. The sheer richness of the surrounding technique and texture blanches the text. Robin Wagner's scenic design consists of stark metal, light-crammed towers that move and revolve to form a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns. Costumer Theoni V. Aldredge must have purchased her swatches from a rainbow merchant to fashion the slinky, sequined gowns, and Tharon Musser...
...first news shot 139 years ago, a panoramic view of the destruction caused by the great Hamburg fire of 1842; and the glories of the original LIFE the greatest of all picture magazines, may never be surpassed Despite the wonders of television, the still news photograph retains its special magic. "It is sometimes thought that the arrival of the moving picture made the still image obsolete," says Harold Evans, editor of the London Times. "I believe, quite to the contrary, that the still image has never been more powerful. It is a moment frozen in time; it preserves forever...
...change a frog into a prince, learn the principles of alchemy or snag a unicorn (and who has not?) The Sorcerer's Scrapbook (Random House; $6.95) is an ideal guidebook. Michael Berenstain's straightfaced account purports to be the Life and Times of Nicodemus Magnus, Doctor of Magic and Sorcerer to the Duke, told in his own words. But its true power and humor lie in its chiaroscuro Dark Ages illustrations of dungeons and dragons and a whimsical text that Merlin might have written on the wind...
...juveniles accountable as adults, for adult crimes, at an earlier age." Sometimes a single crime is enough to change the rules. In Vermont last spring, two boys, ages 15 and 16, allegedly raped, stabbed and beat two twelve-year-old girls, killing one; an outraged legislature swiftly lowered the "magic line" at which a person charged with a serious offense may be tried and sentenced as an adult. Vermont's new age limit...
Those familiar two words suggest the appeal of the suicidal America provides crude, coin-operated Magic Theatres for its Steppenwolves, consolation for its lonely citizens. The letters flash by with a large and bright finality that eulogizes the machine's return to programmed peace. The ending taunts the defeated human, America's new opiate lacks the sublimity of Mozart and allows only illusory release. In its cruel and premeditated way, the finish cuts off the little bit of himself that he entrusted to the machine, and leaves only frustration in its place...