Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entertain they did--playing the tunes of the sixties and seventies that defined Kerry and Clinton's generation, from "Blowin' in the Wind" to "Teach Your Children Well" to "Puff the Magic Dragon...
...Henley said Democrats were the party of amphibians. Whoopi Golbderg blasted Republicans for taking "ugly pills." Peter, Paul and Mary called Kerry "our own magic dragon," who still "lives and frolics...
...times, though, the musicians seemed oblivious to the irony of their words. "Puff the Magic Dragon" was played despite the "I didn't inhale" President's vulnerability on the drug issue. Joe Walsh sang of cities where "when you're down, that's where you'll stay" to a crowd somewhat upset at welfare reforms that cut $60 billion from the programs...
...keen sense of competition with Spielberg and is eager for the original Star Wars to pass Jurassic Park at the box office. (The score in the U.S. is Star Wars, $322 million; Jurassic Park, $357 million.) In fact, it was the special-effects breakthroughs Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic created for Jurassic that convinced Lucas he could realize his vision for the new episodes, which he has been planning since he first conceived Star Wars...
...early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were exactly as they were depicted in the magazines and movies...honking taxis, street vendors selling dirty pictures, roses, oriental rugs..." Buchwald talked his way into a job as a nightclub and film reviewer for the Herald Tribune. His career was launched. Buchwald's recollections of the Trib's scruffy Paris bureau...