Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only seems -- it was absurd, and it got Reagan right into a dangerous mess. For almost six years Reagan got away with his approach to the presidency. In fact, he managed to convince the public, and even some of his critics, that it was part and parcel of his magic for dynamic leadership. Like his policies or not, it felt right to have a President who kept his eye on bold initiatives and left the details to experts. Certainly mistakes were made, and in the field of foreign policy in particular the Administration often seemed to be speaking...
...performance of a career. Too often in Bergman's films has he been relegated to the position of sideline eccentric; here, as the holy fool, he takes center stage. Edwall seems to take unending delight at sticking his rear at the camera; it's the least of his magic tricks in a role that has him walking through glass walls, pirouetting on a bicycle, and taking rabbit punches from passing evil angels. The only problem is that Edwall's Otto forever upstages the characters surrounding him. But if he's an angel, as Tarkovsky would have us believe, that...
...enraptures. Magician Doug Henning and his wife Debby observed Houdini's birthday by paying Appleton a visit last spring. Performing Metamorphosis right in front of the sculpture, they made the switch in a dazzling third of a second. Sculptor Richard Wolter, who lives in Appleton, was thrilled. Says he: "Magic brings to life the wonder our age somehow has lost...
...beauty's brow," wrote Shakespeare. Today he could wryly add, "So plastic surgeons to your very wish will bow." Over the years, the cosmetic wizards have conjured many escapes from the ravages of age, from chemical peels to skin abrasion to surgical lifts. Now they are wielding a new magic wand: syringes filled with collagen. Injections of the whitish gel smooth away time-worn creases as well as acne and surgical scars. And at a relatively affordable price: treatments run $300 to $1,500, about a third of the price of a typical face-lift...
True enough, but there is something more to the T & D magic, and even when they remain at Point A, doing their little trick, it stands out: they are not really two dancers but one. When they move, as to Ravel's Bolero or Rimsky- Korsakov's A Song of India, they move as one, the way that A & R -- Astaire and Rogers -- do on the late show, exuding a sensuality that is more pronounced because it is subdued. "I've never felt sexy in my life," said one elderly woman in the Buffalo audience. "But they make me feel...