Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Darman closely followed a text labeled "core speech." He noted every line that drew applause with an asterisk and every line that drew a laugh with the notation "HA." Happy faces glowed in the pink sunset. About the only tense listener was Dale Schuman, owner of the Magic Man costume and fun shop, whose job it was to release the balloons at precisely the right moment. Reagan sounded his final call to glory: "America's best days are yet to come," he declared. "You ain't seen nothin' yet." The band swung into a country tune...
...dance studio in Boston: "We have a two-week waiting list for wedding couples who want to learn how to waltz." Letitia Baldrige, author of the revised and expanded Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, concludes that "the flower generation tore tradition to shreds, but in the 1980s some magic sewing machine has stitched it all up again...
...admirer while waiting to go onstage to speak at a tribute for Alfred Hitchcock. On cue the lights went down and scenes from Hitchcock films flared onscreen. Stopping himself in, midsentence, Truffaut exclaimed, "Oh! La projection!" and turned, eyes bright, to a peephole that gave access to the magic images. The old lure was irresistible for this French movie master who was, first and forever, a child of the American cinema...
...mysterious old black man named Speedy, who tends a carrousel, hints that if Jack can reach California and find something called the talisman, all will be well. Part of the journeying will be through a parallel world called the Territories, a kind of theme-park Camelot, where "they have magic like we have physics." Some earthlings have "twinners" there-Jack's mother is, almost, the dying Queen Laura, and his uncle Morgan, a greedy Hollywood agent, is a medieval menace who lurks in the shadows...
...goes Jack, equipped with a bottle of magic juice that flips him from one world to the other. Some of the authors' imaginings come appealingly to life. The air in the Territories is so clear, for instance, that if someone pulls a radish out of the ground, it can be smelled half a mile away. Clownish, somewhat dim-witted werewolves loyally guard flocks of cow/sheep, but prudent householders stay out of their way when the moon is full...