Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reeling, then, we get another look at the source of all this controversy. And in most of the reviews (she picks up from her last book in 1972), the magic touch is all there. Her sensibility works like a scalpel, and she pulls off fascinating dissections of a series of good-but-not-great films. Tackling the incomplete aftertaste left by respectable films like Sleeper, Lacombe, Lucien and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, she wrestles her feelings down with words. She won't let go until she's pinned down the fine distinctions, until she's exposed...
...films, produced at Shaw's Movietown, shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta, plus thousands more in Chinatowns around the world. Shaw Brothers grind out 40 titles a year (newest crop: Black Magic, Killer Clans, Five Shaolin Masters)−a sort of column A, column B menu of Oriental weepers with suicidal beauties, or Eastern Westerns featuring Kung Fu Mandarins...
Venn is the course's real magic. From the big publishing names she corrals--this year John Updike '54 and Helen Mayer, president of Dell publishing, will attend the program, to name a few--to her personal interest in getting students placed in fields of their choice, Venn insures that students won't regret the $750 tuition...
...Ford camp naturally disputes the projections. Giving "every benefit to Reagan," Ford Adviser Mel Laird insists that Ford will enter the convention with 1,114 delegates at a minimum, Reagan with 1,058 at best. Thus Ford would be only 16 away from the "magic number." This "worst case projection," says Laird, assures Ford's nomination, since "I have absolute confidence, 100% certainty," that Ford will win the support of at least 75% of the theoretically uncommitted...
Playin' with my magic wand...