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...spot, and—well, he’s not really a comedian. Greenbaum is, by training, a magician. That training started early. “I’ve been doing it since I was five,” says Greenbaum. “People feel that the magic bug bites them, and once you get into it you can’t stop.”Despite his inclinations toward magic, Greenbaum feels that comedy is a very important element of his stage shows. Although magic and comedy occupy “different worlds,” Greenbaum?...
...turning point. Here are the Asteroids games, the Connors-McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word going...
...classic Rumsfeldian fugue--complete with interesting hand gestures--mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic...
...from deep feelings of unworthiness, of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom." But he also described his sister as "someone with a natural nobility who was classless, who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic." That statement raised some eyebrows because it seemed to refer directly to Queen Elizabeth, sitting nearby, who had seen to it that the appellation Her Royal Highness was taken from Diana when she was divorced last year from Prince Charles. When Earl Spencer concluded his tribute, applause could be heard...
...your face.” The spare but anthemic “Free Radicals” tells of an imagined conversation with a suicide bomber. And the rollicking first single, “The W.A.N.D.,” angrily implores listeners to wrest power away from Bush by using magic wands. As always, the Lips give voice to a great deal of philosophical anxiety. On gloomy “The Sound Of Failure,” Coyne takes on Gwen Stefani and Britney Spears for their don’t-worry-be-happy pop inanity. “Mr. Ambulance...