Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...core of every magic trick is a lie. When the silk has changed its color, when the chosen card has appeared, when the billiard balls have multiplied, rest assured that some lie has been told. The silk, the card, the balls--they do not tell the lie. The lie is not in the performance, but in the observation...
...flight to California, he prepared for his next big event in the city, his Inaugural Address. Said he after the flight: "I'm several yellow pages into a tablet that I was working on all the way on the plane, but I haven't come to that magic page-the last one." Once home, he watched the Senate confirmation hearings of his Cabinet nominees on television. Leaving his barbershop on Friday, Reagan commented on Haig's performance: "I think he's taking care of himself pretty well." He will spend a long weekend with his wife...
...people like to rail against rising prices, many also derive some handsome benefits from it. They have in effect become a constituency for inflation. Says M.I.T.'s Lester C. Thurow. a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "Suppose you told small businessmen that you could wave a magic wand and bring the inflation rate to zero. They would think about it for a minute and say no. They have made some fixed commitments in loans and inventories that they would not want to live with...
...corpse. In Seems Like Old Times (S.L.O.T. for short), he has updated Leo McCarey's delicious romantic farce The Awful Truth, this time with Chevy Chase in the Cary Grant role, Goldie Hawn as Irene Dunne and Charles Grodin as Ralph Bellamy. If the new cast spells magic to you, rush to S.L.O.T. You'll see Chevy stumble down an entire hillside and get his nose bobbed by a series of vengeful swinging doors. You'll see Goldie giggle and mewl her way through a dozen predictable dilemmas. You will find that you've seen...
Mozart: The Magic Flute (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Karajan, again, casting singers freshly and coming up with a reading that is both authoritative and sumptuous...