Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, the thinkers who preceded him, and we stand on Newton's, plus his successors'. Because of them, we can map the human genome system and fling spacecraft past Jupiter. We are much too busy and progressive, thank you, for the magic charms and potions and amulets that so bedazzled our dim ancestors. We clasp at this faith and manage to hold on in spite of the myriad irrationalities of daily life. But every so often some public event gives our congratulatory self-image a sharp blow to the chops...
Nobody has to perform that kind of career magic in French cinema. The industry and its actresses occupy a middle-class middle ground where emotions are rarely italicized. If moviegoers are to be touched, they must do half the work, trolling for subtext, reading a heartbreak into a pensive glance. That ability to conspire with the filmmakers is especially important when viewing Beart in Claude Sautet's Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud, winner of the Cesar for the year's best French film...
...each, J.F.K. Jr. and Caroline got the furniture, books, paintings, jewelry and other items auctioned last week by Sotheby's. The auction catalog listed them at $3.3 million to $4.6 million, representing Sotheby's best guess at the fair market value they would command if not imbued with the magic of Camelot. But when the final gavel came down Friday, the items had brought in $34.5 million...
...MAGIC IN HOT WATER
...This conference signals a new age--one which allows the magic and history of Paris, as well as the academic power of Harvard and the Sorbonne, to come together to honor and celebrate African-American music," he said...