Word: magical
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Bodh Gaya has benefited the most, but the pilgrim business, like a magic wand, is transforming places all along the Buddhist circuit. Kushinagar, in Uttar Pradesh, appears at first glance to be another no-hope town: many of the sugar mills that employed the townspeople have recently closed, and unemployment is rampant. Yet the town is seeing a real estate boom, roads are markedly better than anywhere around and children go to well-maintained schools. Kushinagar is where the Buddha died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well...
Gradually, Disney's box-office magic evaporated; Treasure Planet, in 2002, cost about $140 million yet cadged only $38 million at the domestic wickets. Worse, relations with Pixar soured--though the premier CG studio may sign up with Disney again. Last week Disney CFO Thomas Staggs said the film division expected a loss of more than $250 million for the year's fourth fiscal quarter...
Three was the magic number for the day, as third-place division finishes led to a third place team finish in a 10-team field...
Much of his magic was achieved in the years 1961-66, newly illuminated in Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the 3-hr. 29-min. documentary that hits DVD racks Sept. 20 and will be shown on PBS a week later. First Dylan reconfigured the folk song into a political statement as personal as it was universal, writing instant anthems like Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin'. Then he amped up his surreal postromantic ballads and became a rock star...
...habit of marrying the dead," writes Link in The Great Divorce. One of current fiction's little-known treasures, she spins her stories in such charming, matter-of-fact tones that you almost don't realize you're entering a hybrid world that's part Muggle and part magic. A love-befuddled boy talks to a character from his favorite TV show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made of the skin of a dog. Link casts...