Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poof! Like magic, Bailyn is no longer "arrogant and condescending," as one-fourth of students in one of his courses described him. Now, he's "somewhat distant and rather firm in his opinions...
...recognizes the ordinary without ridiculing it, but his ordinary is loony enough for any South American magic realist. The seat of Mist County, in an unmapped region northwest of Minneapolis, delights in eccentric folklore. The first white settlers are led by a Boston Unitarian called to convert the Indians with interpretive dance. She only captivates a beskinned and unbathed French trapper, with whom she has seven children. The failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly...
Despite the uncertainties, hundreds of street performers from all over the world gravitate toward Harvard Square during the summer months to play music, juggle fire or do a little magic. "It's so great to sit here, and out of the corner of my eye see someone smile," says Carol Hetrick, who plays violin along Brattle St. to supplement her income as an administrator at the Longy School of Music. "It makes it all worthwhile...
Sonny Holiday (magic) -- He plans to start performing in Florida very soon. Holiday says the attraction of his show is that there is a beginning, middle...
Undoubtedly, tens of millions of moviegoers hope the filmmaker stays the precocious little boy he seems to be. Only the Hollywood graybeards and a flank of film critics feel like shouting, "Steven, grow up!" Whichever path he chooses, there are dangers. Walt Disney kept recycling the magic of his animated fables until the gold turned into dross. Charlie Chaplin got serious + and lost his audience. Spielberg, who says, "I want people to love my movies, and I'll be a whore to get them into the theaters," means to have it both ways: to mature as an artist while retaining...