Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior phenomenon Darlene Beckford was Harvard's only other individual winner, performing her usual magic in winning the 1500 in a meet record of 4:29.5. Because she is simply so much better than her local competition. Beckford can afford to play around with her strategy; yesterday Beckford ran a fast first half in anticipation of next weekend's exclusive Milrose Invitational Meet in New York, where she will have to run a quick first...
Little Jack Horner's Trick and Joke Shop in downtown Boston may fare better than the Combat Zone Smoke Shop and Laberty Tree Only half of the store's stock consists of paraphernalia. while the rest devoted to jokes, magic tricks, and Halloween masks Manager David Bertolino says he is optimistic that the new law will not hurt his store, and says most of his sales come from the trick and joke products Bertolino says he is not currently stocking up with any new smoking supplies. but sales of those items have been phenomenal customers are coming in and buying...
...Somerville High--the best education in Somerville," teases drummer Peter Prescott, who, like his mates, displays an indulging patience for Psycho's over-enthusiastic rebelliousness. She traipses around the dingy with magic marker: "THE DAMNED," "FLIPPER," "MISSION OF BURMA"--all he favorite hands. "She's the leader of the troops; I wouldn't know what to do without her," says bassist Clint Conley, tongue firmly embedded in cheek. Psycho smiles and slashes at the wall with her Permo-marker. Back out on the dance floor a thin-lipped woman is distributing pamphlets on a Dada-ist art exhibit...
...have become rabid fans of the New Right. Maybe through the example of a few great once--a Gandhi or a King, say. They transformed people; they filled the oppressed with dignity, and the oppressor with shame, and they, sometimes, won their battles. But great men often carry their magic with them to the grave; what other way to explain the silence, the slack, when they are gone...
...ultimate magic was the act of writing: the incantation of words. In her summary of her childhood she explained: "There was a world of things, in which everything had its name and place, and there was a world of words, in which everything came to life." Sylvia Townsend Warner never outgrew that childhood. All her long life she retained the level innocent stare that sees so much more than just innocence. This strangely sophisticated child taught herself how to describe the ordinary with precision and wonder and a certain elegance, until even an adult could see that absolutely nothing...