Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...
...says Silicon man is everywhere. Her book lists a lot of ways you can chop through the male ice. One of the best is to say "I know that my personality is hard on you." Rapid meltage occurs so regularly that the author calls the sentence "the magic words." She also recommends a verbal exercise for expressing resentment. One partner says, "I resent that you . . ." and then expresses the complaint. The other then responds with three set comments: "Thank you for sharing that. Your saying so may not change my behavior. I'm not going to defend myself...
...should. In Moonshine, however, Wilkinson makes a fundamental mistake. Perhaps he dropped his recipe for success while he was wandering around in the woods looking for stills under a midnight moon, but he lost it somehow--and the magic of his first book with...
Because it implies that folk magic led Smith to his scriptural discovery, the letter has caused considerable consternation among Mormons, leading some to question their faith. Christensen and Sheets helped finance efforts to determine the document's authenticity, and Christensen ultimately donated the letter to the church. Many in Salt Lake thought the bombings were tied to the church controversy. "Most of us were scared to death," said Ronald Walker, an expert on Mormon documents. "It looked like screwball vendetta against anyone who had dealt with that letter...
Wicked irony dogged every turn of his career. If his theater magic had been preserved on film, Welles might be known today as a great actor-manager who also dabbled in movies. If the films had not been preserved, Welles' trim exuberance would not have so cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes...