Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always happy, of course. One person may remember only that in the first grade he thought the books of the Bible were named after four odiously well-behaved Sunday school classmates named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. A second can still summon up the sense of majesty and magic that came upon first hearing of the escape from Egypt and the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. William Willimon, now teaching at Duke University's divinity school, fondly looks back on a "church that still believed that Christians were made, not born, and that someone...
...into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here are the audience: they spend most of the film watching and listening to the lovely sights and sounds that Spielberg and his special-effects team have put together. Spielberg in effect is the alien who steps from the mother ship at the end of the film...
When you enter to grow in wisdom, you become an unwillful carrier of the magic, some would say disease, that is called Harvard. And Harvard is much more than the College, where 6400 students pick concentrations, eat in the dining halls and fall asleep in lectures. It is a place with a name that carries weight in Washington, a place where they are trying to recombine the essentials of human life, a place where people do things and people elsewhere listen. They listen carefully because more than a university, an academic factory or a business proposition--and Harvard...
Ramos seems to be more | than just another ghetto-bred | boxer with the messianic conviction that he will be a champion. He has a magic that seduces. Shelly Finkel, the successful rock promoter, spotted Ramos four years ago. He has shepherded the young fighter since he was 16, and will manage him when he turns pro. Finkel, who promotes people like Olivia Newton-John and Billy Joel and bands like the Who and Yes, says he plans to build Ramos' income outside boxing, "so he can go to university and study acting." Says Finkel: "He is not a gladiator...
...specific surface characteristics of cells are found to be associated with only certain types of cancer, radioactively tagged antibodies could be sent to find the cells in any part of the body. It might even be possible to link cell-killing drugs to them, thus finally creating a magic bullet" that would home in on malignant cells and spare normal ones...