Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott Fusco sat in the stands, helpless to stop the screaming with a goal. Bourbeau's magic wand turned into--gasp--a hockey stick...
Gravitas is a mystery: Who has it? Who does not? American voters search the field of candidates for signs of the magic quality...
...Presence of the Past is an interesting and frustrating work, but not the philosophical magic bullet Sheldrake believes it to be. Charitably viewed, it is an abstract musing on the implications of the anthropic principle and similar ideas on unresolved questions in other areas of science. Those seeking educational reading, however, should look elsewhere; here they will find only confusion. His reinterpretation of the universe in "holistic" or "creative" terms may give Sheldrake a certain popularity in "New Age" circles. But holism must coexist with reductionism, and when science begins to answer multilevel, integrative questions, it will be through...
...next year's Final Four featured the Motown sound of the Hrkae circus of North Dakota. I remember the Hobey Baker Award winner controlling the play as precisely as Magic Johnson runs a Laker fast break...
...odds are growing longer that any candidate can come up with the magic number needed to win on the first ballot at the Democratic convention in Atlanta...