Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overtime, last week...Martins is averaging 1.95 points a game...Israel leads the nation with a 2.14 GAA, while Brian Farrell is tops in the country with six game-winning goals...Harvard is 8-0-1 against Ivy League schools and has clinched the Ivy League title...Harvard's magic number for winning the ECAC is five wins or 10 points. Any combination of Brown miscues and Harvard triumphs lowers the magic number...Ted Drury picked up one assist and Peter Ciavaglia `91 had one goal and one assist through Team USA's first two games. Drury and Ciavaglia head...
...Room of One's Own, Woolf wrote, "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Because women would adoringly (or pseudo adoringly) mirror men to themselves at twice their real stature and worth (thinks Woolf), the men, thus encouraged, felt wonderful and set forth to build empires. The inclination of American women today is not to mirror men at all, but to judge them at their true size at best -- and sometimes to evaluate them at half-size or quarter-size. Perhaps...
...BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot rang out, and hands holding flags emerged through holes in the ball...
...anyone whose notions of magic are bounded on the one side by the rattle and roll of Penn & Teller and, on the other, by the glitzoramas of David Copperfield, the Jay show will seem highly unconventional, perhaps even radical. "Other magicians are more prone to showing off, to letting us see how good they are," says Jules Fisher, who did the lighting for the show and who studies magic with Jay. "But Ricky's virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted...
...future dead white male, Updike makes mischief with a changing world that unsettles his sensibilities and excites his imagination. In a spasm of Latin American magic realism, he turns Isabel into a black lesbian and Tristao into a white businessman. A tirelessly inventive tour de force, this off-color romance may not add much to Updike's stature as a man of letters, but it is a spectacular example of what happens when a writer with talent to burn burns...