Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard magic number to finish in the top four and gain home and advantage in the playoffs is ` three. Any combination of Harvard wins and Yale loses totaling three gives the Crimson Home ice in the quarter finals...
Telluride's unique ambience and special magic are set picturesquely at the & end of State Highway 145 in a box canyon some 350 difficult miles and a couple of decades southwest of Denver. But the onetime rip-roaring mining town in the San Juan Mountains has never quite been a backwater. Butch Cassidy came by to rob one of its banks, and William Jennings Bryan stopped off to say a few words. The local mines used to yield gold, silver and other precious metals, but the last of the major ones closed...
...park had become a street fair. T shirts were on sale, decorated with tie-dyed spiral nebulas, skulls and roses (another important symbol to the Dead, who have more symbols than the Elks or the Masons). So were incense, posters, illuminated sweatpants, fly whisks for easy tropical living and magic cookies. "How magic?" the vendor was asked. "Magic enough to get you very high," she said with an encouraging smile...
...recent books on the late George Balanchine contain magic. The authors, whether biographers or dancers who have worked for him, have a singular advantage: an indestructible central character. A choreographer of genius, Mr. B. had a marvelous, ample personality. He was riveting to watch, hilarious to listen to. Like a god, he never explained. Instead, he demonstrated, and a dancer had to have the technique as well as the intuition and sensitivity to interpret. His spoken comments were usually odd, elliptical little puns, analogies or fables, often involving animals or food. Thus the Balanchine you got was the Balanchine...
...dearest. The average flight contains 40 or 50 people who are convinced that the plane is going to crash, maybe 50 who are enraged by the mandatory 30-minute delay in getting off the ground, and another 100 or so who are busy getting giddy or truculent through the magic of booze. Under the circumstances, which is better: a calming smile or a conventional dose of feminist grimness? Wanda: Pilots don't have to chuckle when they give one of those reassuring Chuck Yeager speeches saying that there's nothing to worry about even though the plane has no landing...