Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise of the night was actually the opening act, Doobious Leghorn. In just a five-song set, the five-member band covered the musical spectrum from R&D to heavy metal to a take-off of "Putt the Magic Dragon" that got everyone on their feet. "We play whatever tickles our fancy," said guitarist Dan Bernal, and we have a lot of fancies to tickle...
...mean, I loved the naturalistic tone of Harvey Kietel's body in the love scene of "The Piano." I don't mind watching less-than-attractive actors on the screen. But I had not realized how conditioned I was to expect only attractive women in leading roles. The magic and beauty of this film is that you forget what people look like, the fact that they may walk funny, even the fact that this is supposed to be an unusual type of love story, and instead you see them as normal people who love someone else who happens...
...these excursions came show-business magic. Disney's handsome fantasies satisfied as master lessons in the storytelling craft. They rekindled the art and emotion of the studio's classic animation style; they showed Broadway what it had forgotten about integrating popular music into a potent story; and they reassembled the fragmented movie audience -- these are pictures all races and ages enjoy. Fifty years from now they will probably be enthralling the grandchildren of kids who thrill to Dumbo and other Disney relics today...
...PITCHING STINKS. "It's just bad pitches," says White Sox coach Jackie Brown. "A bad pitch is one in the middle of the strike zone," where the ball looks like a watermelon and the bat feels like a magic wand. In '94, entire pitching staffs are lobbing large fruit: the Minnesota Twins and Oakland A's + have earned-run averages near 6.00 -- an excellent mark for figure skaters, a pathetic one for hurlers. Yet the good pitchers are as dominating as ever. And the best, Atlanta's Gregg Maddux, is allowing a miserly 1.34 earned runs per game...
...unpublished opinion that Joseph Smith, not ancient authors, wrote The Book of Mormon, the church's original scripture. Wright, who still professes belief in Smith as a prophet, now teaches at Brandeis University. Meanwhile, D. Michael Quinn resigned under pressure from B.Y.U. for publishing Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, which detailed Smith's involvement with folk magic and the occult before becoming the church's first prophet. Quinn had earlier published an article indicating that despite the church's official disavowal of polygamy in 1890, high officials secretly continued to practice and sanction additional polygamous nuptials. Both Quinn...