Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's cover story and picture essay on wildlife mark the culmination of seven adventurous weeks in East Africa. The assignment gave Morrow a chance to leave the routines of New York City behind and drift in the expanses of Kenya's plains and mountains, sampling "their freedom and magic spaciousness." Leifer had wanted to return to Kenya since 1984, when he snapped a runner there for TIME's picture preview of Olympic athletes. "Most of my assignments are somewhat predictable," says Leifer. "With animals, you never know...
...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
...baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer on the sides and in the back, poufing up the thinning top. But by that time Ford had pardoned Nixon, and not even Pitts' magic could save...
After Howley's second goal, his teammates mauled him near the blue-line. It's not often you see a JV player jump into an important game and score a pair of goals. Maybe the magic of the jersey number rubbed off on Howley...
...this is a show about music, not a play at all but a reverent tribute to the Harold Arlens and Johnny Mercers who provided the soundtrack for the decade. Along with some terrific renditions of a few standards, like "That Old Black magic" and "Goody-Goody," writer-director Dennis Deal has, along with Albert Evans, come up with an array of new songs that lyrically and musically conjure up the period, beginning with the opening number, "Nite-Club...