Word: magical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...owners sell off parts. The closing of the takeover deal earlier this month meant that RJR stock was worth $109 per share--quite a bit more than than the $56 per share it was worth on the market before the highly-publicized takeover war began, but that's the magic of buyouts...
...Crimson finishes up 1988 still hoping to discover the magic that brought eight-straight Eastern titles to Blodgett Pool from 1979 to 1986. And some of that positive energy may come in the form of the squad's other co-captain, Olympic gold-medalist David Berkoff, who becomes eligible to swim on February 1, three days before the team's big dual-meet showdown at Princeton...
Berkoff knows that he cannot win the meet on his own. But if he happened to bring back any magic potions from Seoul, he might want to leave some under the tree at Blodgett Pool...
...takes some magic and luck, and a grasp of that most chimerical substance, a child's imagination, to make an eternal toy. The best of them are infinitely simple and endlessly entertaining. There are nearly 103 million ways, for example, in which six eight-stud Lego bricks of the same color can be joined together. An artist in Colorado has re-created part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling on his Etch A Sketch. A classic toy, says John Brandt, manager of Toys International in Los Angeles, "is something where the child's imagination is the most important thing...
...Dunster House approach. Physical humor, which might play well in the background, is brought to center stage, detracting from the play itself. The audience is treated to such extended vignettes as Axel struggling with Scotch tape and the embassy priest struggling to free himself from a Houdiniesque magic trick. These antics are funny by themselves, but are not anywhere near enough to carry an entire play...