Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtitle, America's Magic Mountain, refers to Thomas Mann's novel of a sanatorium as microcosm. Fair enough; this lively history reflects a galaxy of medical and literary incidents. The cast is worth the entrance fee: W. Somerset Maugham and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walker Percy and Bela Bartok, and even Gerald and Sara Murphy, the '20s couple who decided that living well was the best revenge. They all had one thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease...
...damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply." Since he did not finish this difficult task, Hemingway cannot be blamed if there is less than meets the eye in The Garden of Eden. What does meet the eye is often enough. There is always magic in discovering a "new" Hemingway. Not many posthumous writers can make that claim...
...magic--and financial potential--of the backwards maxim has not been lost on Joe Bertagna '73, one-time Harvard hockey goalie and Harvard sports enthusiast...
...heart attack." Later the OMB boss came to the gloomy conclusion that even the most severe cuts in nonmilitary spending would fall $44 billion short of balancing the budget by 1984 (the actual gap, of course, turned out to be vastly greater). His simple solution: slap a "magic asterisk" on the $44 billion figure and call it "future savings to be identified...
...bedtime tale, and may have the same effect: putting the kiddies right to sleep. Lili (Mia Sara) is a fairyland princess, all coquettish glances and sweet mischief. Her beau, Jack o' the Green (Tom Cruise), is a swain of the woodland working class. When Lili touches one of the magic white unicorns--can't have your bucolic fantasy without some unicorns--the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) begins to work his evil alchemy. And the film, which has been reclining under glass, content to be admired like pictures at an exhibition, comes to seductive life...