Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sunset years. He has a certain fellow feeling for the ogre, who is also an old crock who has outlived his time. Richardson's best speech is an evocation of the days when the skies were aflap with dragons and all the earth seemed touched by magic...
...produced by the Disney organization, Dragonslayer represents a game attempt to recapture the audience that has been drifting away in recent years. At moments the film evokes the kind of shuddery terrors that the classic animated fairy tales did. Like Galen, the Disney people seem to have a magic amulet that is full of promise. It will be interesting to see if, finally, they can slay the monster of indifference that has been laying waste their once secure hillside...
Other gene splicers have accomplished variations of the same feat, but the Genentech-Agriculture Department team says that its production levels are a thousand times as high per bacterium as anything that has been done before. The scientists acknowledge that their vaccine is not a magic bullet against all seven major strains of foot-and-mouth disease.Each has a slightly different protein coat, and each will require a different vaccine. But they are optimistic that the critical proteins can be isolated and then reproduced through gene splicing. If so, in a few years effective new vaccines easily produced in large...
...fragrance for which it claimed almost mystical powers of "animal arousal." Now Jovan is spending up to $6 million on provocative TV ads to promote Andron, a fragrance that it contends is "capable of triggering an intense magnetic reaction" in men and women alike. The perfume's magic love potion? Alpha androstenol, a synthetic compound that is chemically the same as a substance found in human perspiration...
...pepper shakers, toothpicks and holders, sun visors, jugs, shirts (uncountable selection), measuring cups, placemats, letter holders, desk organizers, soap dishes, "Pedro's paddles", baby pants, baby bibs, back scratcher, coasters, pencil sharpeners, x-rated viewing cameras, jumping beans, figurines of pedro and cacti, pencils key rings, combs, six-color magic markers, donkey toothbrush holders, puppets, letter openers, napkin rings, wind-up Pedros, frisbees, New Years noise makers, wallets, scarves, candles, fake rocks ("get your rocks off," $5.95), toy pinball machines, tambourines, slippers, sweatshirts, string ties, playing cards, punching bags, toy binoculars, pin cushions, aprons, picture puzzles, bullwhips, shopping bags, roulette...