Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actor-Director Orson Welles will do a mind-reading act, and Comedian Bill Cosby will play a fumble-thumbs straight man. But the star of NBC's Dec. 26 special will be Doug Henning, 28, Canadian-born escape artist, magician and current Broadway star of The Magic Show. For his debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst...
...MAGIC FLUTE. Mozart and Ingmar Bergman: a combination made somewhere in the higher celestial regions. An ebullient and quite ravishing version of Mozart's morality tale that is part recreation, part reinterpretation...
...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...
...MAGIC IMAGE by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland. 304 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95. This is that rarest of items: a photography book in which words are more important than pictures. Authors Beaton, noted stage designer and photographer, and Buckland nave attempted nothing less ambitious than a full history of photography and its practitioners from 1839 to the present. Beaton's introduction is elegant and concise, as are the biographical sketches of more than 200 photographers. Inevitably, gaps and biases appear. Salon and experimental artists receive favored treatment, while the works of such realists as Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis...
...later work does not measure up to this painting. More and more, in the later series, Kupka seems to be losing any sense of his own identity as a painter. His post-World-War-I work gradually discards the "spiritual" for a progressive mechanization of imagery and color. The magic and the music of the earlier paintings disappears; the movement here is not that of the cosmos, but that of a machine. These canvases are products of design, not creation...