Word: magical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social handshake has its anthropological origins in the idea of primitive man showing he was not carrying a weapon, the political handshake springs from long ago when a king's touch might do magic and when the power of such connection seemed infinitely more pertinent than the potential germs. To touch was to partake somehow--maybe even through the germs--of the king's magic. Surely voters will imagine that when they shake hands with Donald Trump, gold will rub off. (Of course, bad magic may also be communicated. Maybe the handshake with Herbert Hoover many years ago explains...
...scares, the reader first. Ilana is a woman of the old country, probably Russia, who somehow falls in love with a stranger and finds herself in an unnamed American city. Her journey comprises stories of rape and incest, murder and solicitation, placed in a mythical context of forests and magic. A "man in the forest laughing with little pointed teeth" violates her, yet gives her a Faberge egg. This egg becomes the metaphor for Ilana's life and spirituality, though the connection remains weak due to Budnitz's style problems. She writes, "I did not tell her about...
...interview on the air at CBS; Don Hewitt and the corporate heads fear a multi-billion lawsuit from Brown and Williamson, and Bergman must plead with Hewitt and anchor Mike Wallace to get the ground-breaking interview on "60 Minutes." The loose, organic structure of the film works its magic in the first third of the movie; the pacing is deliberate and slow, allowing the film to get under Wigand's skin and into his life...
...posters. When theater owners agreed to put tickets on sale a month early, TBN aired videos of supporters buying blocks of 100 or even 1,000. Two Los Angeles ministers, with congregations of 12,000 and 18,000, each arranged to buy out that city's Magic Johnson Theatre for a day. "We made this an event," says Michael Harpster, Providence's marketing chief, "and the Christian audience could go and bear witness." Which they did, in droves. And the rest is Hollywood hallelujah...
CARLOS SANTANA Black Magic comeback: Woodstock vet's album soars to No. 1. AARP to sponsor tour...