Word: magically
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...precincts. Murder is down 39%, auto theft 35%. Robberies are off by a third, burglaries by a quarter. No wonder Comstat has become the Lourdes of policing, drawing pilgrim cops from around the world--Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Zimbabwe, Taiwan--for a taste of New York's magic...
...cutbacks, I wanted to tell them to please keep in mind that we in Russia have already had five years of the same cutting back and restructuring. Perhaps that is why our political life is so full of Russian-style Ross Perots, each one a politician with his own magic bullet. Perhaps it could be that the U.S.'s victory in the cold war is a hollow one: instead of making us into yourselves, you are turning into us. ELENA KOUCHMANOVA Ekaterinburg, Russia...
Forget about social history. Though any post-Marxist pedant can wring out the usual insights about patriarchy and property in 17th century Dutch bourgeois life, none of them touch on the peculiar magic of Vermeer's images. Like Piero della Francesca, Vermeer was a highly inexpressive artist. He didn't even paint a self-portrait, as far as anyone knows. You come out of the exhibit knowing almost as little about Vermeer the man as when you went in. Biography, faint: Lived in Delft, a backwater. Son of a silkworker. A Papist in a Calvinist town. Quite successful nonetheless. Married...
...YOUR MOVING TRIBUTE to figure skater Sergei Grinkov [SPORT, Dec. 4]. I, like many others, knew him only through his performance, but I still feel a tremendous sadness at his passing. In this world so filled with violence and hate, Grinkov and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva brought sweetness and magic with them whenever they stepped on the ice. Watching them somehow made everything beautiful. If there's an answer to why so perfect a union should be ended, it will take a wiser mind than mine to make sense of it. If Katia decides to skate solo, wonderful...
...CONTAX G1 Look elsewhere for a point-and-shooter. This ingenious titanium beauty is a remarkable hybrid of two previously implacable classes: rangefinder and single-lens-reflex cameras. Manufactured by Kyocera, the G1 combines the compact, noiseless flexibility of a rangefinder with the auto-everything magic of SLRs--minus the blinking lights, beeping sounds and bulk. With its four state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss T* lenses, the G1 is a thoroughly modern version of the classic Leica, proof that retro is the wave of the future...