Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAGIC KINGDOM FOR SALE-- SOLD!, Brooks...
...which will cost somewhere between $10 million and $20 million, is fitting for the Coca-Cola Co. (1985 sales: $7.9 billion) as it turns 100. A century ago, according to corporate lore, John Styth Pemberton, 55, a surgeon and analytical chemist, whomped up the first batch of Coke's magic elixir in his Atlanta backyard, using a three-legged brass kettle and an oar. Now, almost exactly a year after the seemingly disastrous flip- flop decision to change the formula of the world's best-selling soft drink, Coca-Cola has emerged bigger, wealthier and vastly more diversified than ever...
...under time constraints to compensate for a handful of technical problems: the music isn't ready yet, and the lighting is behind schedule. Shakespeare's players performed in broad daylight, but modern productions are obliged to impress their audiences with the magic of modern technology: there are so many lights at the mainstage that they must be controlled by computer. Our current problem is controlling the computer, to orchestrate the lighting changes with the hundreds of cues in the play. It is going to be a long night...
...rest of Legend, about an hour, is spent on the mundane but difficult tasks of climbing out of dungeons, scaling huge walls, crossing pirahna-infested moats and busting through magic doors. There is a climactic battle between Jack and Evil at the end, in which one of them wins and the other goes spinning off into an infinite void--you can guess who gets the girl and who gets the shaft...
...turned to politics, President Reagan, Central America, the arms race and Israel. Although we conversed freely on all these issues, when we asked for details about other refuseniks in Riga, prisoners in labor camps, and recent arrests Lev's voice fell to a low whisper and he removed a "magic slate" from the wall. He wrote what he could not speak onto the board and then erased the words. He gave me the names of people in Riga who wanted invitations from Israel and the names of refuseniks who wanted visitors. My discomfort and surprise at watching adult...