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...audience." But that global audience is us. Studios wouldn't spend so much money making and marketing these familiar products if we weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition of a fairy tale--or one told from a different angle--validates an underlying...
...sickly village of Cidadap is not alone in its woes. Even as Americans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine--the magic bullet that all but wiped out polio in the U.S.--the disease is on the march around the world. Since 2003 polio has been spreading in a fevered band across 16 countries mostly in western and central Africa and the Middle East. And with the news last week that the virus had leaped the Indian Ocean to Indonesia, other nations, including the U.S., have begun to worry about where the disease might turn up next...
...already own a dozen variations of this song--and you'll need this one too. It sounds old and feels new, and it's a reminder that in the right hands the most familiar things in rock 'n' roll--three chords, four instruments and an aching heart--still have magic powers...
...Harvard Magic Society...
First, mirrors: “We are experimenting with fragments of mirrors on tree trunks,” Duehr proclaimed, adding that he and the Public Art team hope the mirror fragments will offer a sense of glistening magic to the now seemingly mundane green and red-brick acres of Harvard’s Old Yard. Just for a little while at least...