Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saltonstall, whose name is magic in Massachusetts politics, has never sought high political office before. But, he supposedly is disenchanted with the convention's endorsement of former lieutenant governor Francis...
...with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes the lad's do-or-die passion, ultimately scores her own sexual coup over the hypocrisy shown in the affair by her cuckolded husband, her amoral mother...
...novels and novellas, scores of stories, articles and plays, 6,000,000 words-owes to the author's experiences. The son of a petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville-d'Avray, of fortunes in old Roman silver to be found in Sardinia-meanwhile hiding from...
...subtle magic of Vermeer's art," exclaims Director John Walker, "the marvelous luminous effects, the soft texture of flesh and materials, the sense of suspended action and above all the tranquillity." One expert estimates that the Vermeer would have fetched $3 million on the auction block, but it will cost the National nothing. The gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr. in memory of their father, the late Horace Havemeyer of the sugar-refining family, it will become the gallery's property upon the death of his widow...
...MAGIC OF BROADCASTING (CBS, 10-p.m.). Arthur Godfrey takes a long and nostalgic look at the early days of radio (he was "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist" in 1929) and the precocious but troubled babyhood of television. Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby and John Scott Trotter are among the guests. Old film clips and recordings extend the reach back; some current behind-the-scenes footage brings it up to date again...