Word: magically
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Phony Election? The guarded answer to this question from most Venezuelans is : political instability. Like all de facto governments in Latin America, the junta dreams of the magic ceremony at the polls which can turn a military dictator into a constitutional President. Last April came the decree promising the election of a constituent assembly within 14 months...
...Magic Cell. Fluorochemicals are nobody's monopoly, but Minnesota Mining believes it has the best commercial method of making them. Instead of starting with dangerous and expensive fluorine gas, its process, invented during World War II by Professor J. H. Simons of Florida University, uses an electrolytic cell charged with hydrogen fluoride, which is much easier to handle. The organic compound that is to be transformed is mixed with the hydrogen fluoride. When an electric current is passed through the solution, fluorine atoms obediently change places with hydrogen atoms in the organic compound, turning it into the corresponding fluorochemical...
...religion of Jarmo had probably changed to fit the agricultural life. In its ruins are no idols or magic pictures designed to improve the hunting. In their place are many female figurines, naked and obviously pregnant-proof that the' farmers and herdsmen of Jarmo had already developed a fertility cult...
Mozart: The Magic Flute (Wilma Lipp and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Anton Dermota, tenor; Erich Kunz, baritone; Ludwig Weber, bass; chorus of the Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The kind of crack performance, with its own unique Gemütlichkeit, that makes music lovers trek to Salzburg every summer. A new Marriage of Figaro, with the same orchestra and conductor and some of the same cast, offers more of the same happy spirit. Both recordings: excellent...
Director Stevens may have used some sort of magic to draw out these three fine performances, but at the same time he has used some down-to-earth technical tricks to compliment the depth of emotion in the acting on the screen. It is to his credit that none of these tricks is ever obtrusive. He uses really close close-ups, and is not afraid to hold the camera on his subject for more than a split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal...