Word: magical
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...patriotism and commercial energy of the nation conjoined in July and August during an extraordinary event: the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. There was a kind of magic about the Games, a brilliance of performance and setting, as if not only the athletes but the place itself and the weather, blue and golden, all rose to the occasion. Sometimes the crowds were gloatingly pro-American as the nation's athletes collected an overachieving 83 gold medals. There was a certain smugly triumphal mood in the stands that replicated the atmosphere of a Reagan campaign rally. At both events, young Americans...
...bright entrepreneurial energy driving the American economy. In the late '70s, Japan's imitative wizardry and its mysterious cultural-economic consensus were the international model to copy. Today the model, the source of envy around the world, is the freewheeling private initiative of the U.S. Much of the improvisational magic, especially in the booming high-tech industries, comes from the yuppies...
...psych market research pits He-Man's Heroic Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
None of the year's graphics are fresher or more appealing than a poster for the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) show on The Magic of Neon. Designed by Jannes Art Publishing and Beda Ross Design Ltd., it is based on an original neon artwork by Lili Lakich...
...variously suffering characters, Geraldine James is unremittingly sensible. So too is Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the thoughtful, soft-spoken officer with whom she feels rapport. But the most dominant of all the performances is that of Pigott-Smith as Merrick. Holding together the entire series with the black magic of a self-made lago, he is a picture of twisted pride and prejudice, his face permanently pinched, his upper lip invariably quivering toward a sneer...