Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader who described the magic of the number 40 says that Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days [LETTERS, Oct. 29]. The Jews never had it that easy: it was 40 years...
...first hall of "Superman The Movie" was devoted to establishing the origins of the Man of Steel "Supergirl" does the same in 15 minutes. Argo City, a surviving Kryptonian colony in "inner space," depends on the omegahedron for its energy. Chief Scientist Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) steals the magic ball, Supergirl loses it, and then steals Zaltar's ship to find it. Arriving on earth in full costume, she starts hunting for the MacGuffin (Alfred Hitchcock's) word for the jewel/microfilm/painting/whatever that everyone is hunting for in a typical thriller...
...there were endless switchbacks and crosscurrents of time. Reagan stood for the past in a different way. The Democrats said he represented the past, populated by such candlesnuffers as Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In the magic lantern of his own mythos, Reagan saw himself in a Norman Rockwell vision, an image of a clean and wholesome earlier America...
What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and the place is India. An unofficial royal family that President Reagan aptly compared to the Adams family in the U.S. and that Indians liken to the Mogul emperors and maharajahs of ages past, the House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India "a democratic monarchy...
Outside, he moved in a magic circle of surrealists, hardheaded Partisan Review editors and cafe philosophers who lived from hand to mouth, mostly mouth...