Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sony Magic Link...
...temporarily by the ambassador's bumbling son (Michael J. Fox). Despite its dated cold war plot, the 1966 play shows that Allen even at this early stage was a skilled farceur. The Hollanders' presence in the embassy causes mounting chaos involving a visiting emir, a fugitive priest who does magic and a stuffy embassy official who gets conked on the head and thinks he's the Wright Brothers. Both of them...
...work at a furious pace, sometimes turning out one new opera a year, and he runs the risk of repeating himself. La Belle, though, is remarkable not only in conception but also in execution, brimming with freshets of melody and surging with Wagnerian power in conjuring up a magic kingdom...
...seamlessly. The restless, relentless energy of the score -- tempered, for the first time in Glass's career, by some fetching love music -- pulls one into the film in a way that mere background music never could. By the final shot, of a sublime Beauty and her transformed Beast borne magically aloft and soaring through the clouds, the audience is as enchanted as the characters. Even Wagner, who knew something about magic himself, might have been impressed...
...team got off to a promising 4-1 start, turning the coach into somewhat of a prophet. And despite Tuesday night's disappointing 86-74 loss to Rhode Island, which dropped the squad's record to 5-3, Harvard looks like it has recaptured some of the old magic...