Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times Dead Ringers also tilts out of coherence, with scenes that are dramatically stillborn. But Irons is splendid in both roles, and Cronenberg can create tour-de-force tableaux with his effortless black magic. In one, Bev strides into surgery dressed in red, like a demon priest at a sacrificial rite. The victim is woman; her crime is woman's unique advantage over man, the power to produce perfect new bodies from the most vulnerable part of her own. Any mad scientist, any man, can try either to serve that power or to destroy it. And Bev must finally love...
Click click click. The central figure in all these vignettes is the real- life Ingmar Bergman, and never has an autobiography been more aptly titled than The Magic Lantern. For it is as if the great director, whose passion for the transforming power of the vividly projected image was first stirred by the paraffin-lamp projector that was his favorite childhood toy, is rummaging through a boxful of old slides and throwing them on memory's screen in the order they come to hand, without pause or transitional comment...
Four days ago, the Sox were leading the Yankees by six-and-a-half games. The Boston Herald splashed a huge number eight on the front page, standing for Boston's magic number. Any combination of Yankee losses and Sox wins that add up to eight would give Boston its second title in three years...
...proposition: will the city of Boston please keep quiet until the last pitch of the series is thrown? No mention of the magic number, no mention of trying to make the Series again to face the hated Mets...
Stop the "T." Evacuate the city to Cape Cod. Tell the Globe and the Herald to not print any magic numbers on any page. Magic can turn back...