Word: magical
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...Your cover story "Mirror, Mirror ..." described how Asian men are spending more time and money on their looks [Oct. 31]. The modern male's penchant for body and facial makeup would put to shame Snow White's wicked stepmother, who was always consulting her magic mirror to check on who was the fairest of them all. Your report said many Asian girls like boys to be more stylish. I say this is the beginning of a new era when women want to be more in control, making men their eventual subjects. Since the emancipation of women, men and women have...
...needed the magic of David Ortiz and Curt Schilling to win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. This year, Harvard may have the magical players, in the form of junior center Brian Cusworth and captain Matt Stehle, necessary to pull off a similar miracle—winning the Ivy League championship for the first time in school history...
...calm on stage for all the dynamism of her jokes, and her deadpan manner, which makes her seem almost shocked at herself, is amusing, if not truly hilarious in a few situations. However, even her engaging performance fails to make the film truly memorable, much less “Magic...
...last semester abroad and realized while I was away just how much I missed being here. Mostly, though, it’s because this is senior year, and I’m realizing that in June I’ll have to leave this place and all of its magic behind. But, of course, they say it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved...
...knows for sure whether serotonin has a role in depression, let alone exactly what that role might be. But many doctors pretend they're sure, Whitaker says, because "psychiatry for a long time had a bit of an inferiority complex. It wanted magic bullets like everybody else." Trouble is, the magic bullets, including the SSRIs, don't work very well. By perturbing neurotransmitter activity they can make patients chronically ill, says the Boston-based author...