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Word: magical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With Magic Johnson, a miracle is commonplace. It is too easy to have faith in someone who nearly always delivers...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Waiting for Doug | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...work, she finds herself in dire financial straits until she learns that she has inherited a mansion. But the mansion is creepy, and it has a "recipe book" in the kitchen that Elvira's sinister Uncle Vincent (W. Morgan Sheppard) will go to any length to obtain. Mansion, magic book and menacing uncle are in a morally uptight, Salem-like Massachusetts town called Fallwell, run by gossipy biddy Chastity Pariah (Edie McClurg...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Wicked Good Fun | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

Despite a 1-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays last night, Boston's magic number for clinching the division was reduced to two as New York also lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

Later, Milwaukee beat California 4-3 and got within 2 1/2 games of the lead. But the Brewers have played more games, and Boston's magic number for eliminating them is also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

MOMI also has a simple, compelling narrative thrust. It traces moving images from the shadow plays of ancient Java and the magic-lantern shows of the early 19th century to the big parade of movie stars, social trends and industrial eruptions. Some periods are re-created with elaborate props: a looming female robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a railway car stocked with projector and films to recall the propaganda push of early Soviet cinema, a Salvador Dali collage with the probing eyes he designed for Hitchcock's Spellbound, and a couch inspired by Mae West's lips. Elsewhere, actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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