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...frisson (pardon my French) as they darted around Europe on their anti-clerical rounds. It ended, for me, with The Illusionist, a rather handsome gaslit period piece in which I failed to understand what Edward Norton saw in the blandly beautiful Jessica Biel, even though I did like his magic tricks...
...defined completely by the distance between the famous person and the average viewer. But great pop music erases distance. It takes our dumbest secret thoughts (He doesn't like me! No one has ever loved as deeply as I am loving right now!) and, with three chords and some magic dust, renders them glorious and universal...
...together and whipped up Crazy in Love, a colossal hit that rivals the Ronettes' Be My Baby in its ability to turn an innocent crush into something worthy of a wall of sound. On B'day, Beyoncé's second solo album, the power couple tries to recapture the magic on two tracks, Upgrade U and Deja Vu, and it's not the fact that they go back to the well so explicitly that lames the songs. It's the rapping. Jay-Z is the best M.C. on the planet, but like every other rapper, he has no subject other than...
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...