Word: magical
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Movies began as trickery, a game that science played on the eye. Film is a series of photographs passing through a projector so quickly that the eye believes the images on them are moving. That lie, of moving pictures, seemed like magic to early spectators and, when all the conjuring arts and techniques are aligned, seem so today. Viewers still allow themselves to be fooled by the director: the illusionist-in-chief...
...possibility out of my dozen weeks liberated from the structure and rigor of the academic year.The dilemma is how we realize our summer goals—and, more basically, how we define them in the first place. During the academic year, these questions are easier to answer than a Magic of Numbers problem set. The “optimal†use of our time is, for the most part, defined for us: attend class, join an extracurricular, party on the weekend.But the traditional barometers of achievement—paramountly, a flawless ‘A’ on your...
...Republican House member Chris Shays were slotted in for Schlesinger. But both are in hot races important to the GOP, and neither is likely capable of taking out even a wounded Lieberman. One thing is clear: If the GOP has any plans to make Schlesinger disappear and pull a magic candidate out of the hat, the Dems haven't caught wind of it. "I have yet to see evidence that they've got a viable candidate to put on the ticket," says a Democratic strategist...
Tiaro Shire: Discover the magic, says a billboard. The brownish fields at Gunalda, 200 km north of Brisbane, don't look especially magical. But then you walk into a shop called Wind Fairies, and you start to wonder. Inside a room hung with blue velvet and decked with gold stars and Christmas-tree lights, Rhonda Gadenne puts a small glass ball in your hand, sprinkles you with glitter and says: "Close your eyes and make your fairy wish. May your magic come true...
...deep-voiced murmurs of "Get on" and "Go" fill the air. Burton, fag in hand, strides about. The mickeys are the most economical stock; there's little price premium in fattening them up. "The whole operation is about turning grass into T-bones," he says. "It's a magic industry." By 9.30 a.m., it's smoko. The billy boils, banter flows. Cook Jill has brought buttered bread, treacle and sausage rolls. Slightly less grubby from work than the men and Swedish traveler Christine are two first-year veterinary science students from Melbourne. Emma Zalcman and Kristie Jennings are getting valuable...