Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Randi was watched because of his "reputation for sleight of hand." During one crucial test, the lab suddenly rocked with laughter: Randi was enlivening things with magic tricks. "Only the constant implication that we had something to hide prevented me from stopping this masquerade," said Benveniste...
...simulators, whether designed for work or for play, rely on a bag of electronic magic tricks to fool body and mind into believing they are somewhere they are not. At the heart of the illusion are two basic technologies, one sensed through the eyes, the other felt in the belly...
Meanwhile, a different kind of magic is playing in front of the trainee's eyes, as the horizon dips and turns in sync with the false motion of the capsule. Two decades ago, flight simulators used movie projectors to give pilots a sense of visual reality. Later they used 2,000-to-1-scale model boards and tiny mobile cameras...
Family gatherings used to seem incomplete without a Polaroid camera. But the magic of seeing pictures 60 seconds after pushing a button faded in the early 1980s, when automatic 35-mm cameras and one-hour processing labs transformed conventional photography into a better-than-instant phenomenon. Polaroid's sales of instant cameras have fallen from 6.6 million units in 1980 to 3.8 million last year...
...Jesse Jackson gained stature and popularity during the course of his campaign, Dukakis gained votes-and the money necessary to run his effort. Jackson ignited the crowds, his speeches were television magic, he kissed babies and hugged supporters. Meanwhile, Dukakis talked about economic opportunity and the Massachusetts Miracle, columnists wrote admiring pieces about his campaign money machine, and voters pulled enough levers in voting machines to put the Massachusetts governor firmly in the winner's seat...