Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Theater: A fresh staging misses My Fair Lady's magic...
...star of the Riviera's long-running show Splash; Jackson plays a spaceship commander in one of Sega's new virtual-reality video games at the Luxor; and Siegfried and Roy got the real Jackson to compose and sing their show-closing theme song, Mind Is the Magic. And Madonna? Her just finished Girlie Show world tour, with its Vegas-style dancers and meretricious Vegas-style lighting, is precisely as pseudosexy in 1993 as shows at the Flamingo were in 1963 -- decadence lite...
Penn and Teller are ultra-show-biz-savvy New York intellectuals whose act is an ironic deconstruction of magic shows in addition to being a very impressive magic show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing...
...child who comments that he just saw you at another store, it is good to reply, "Santa's magic, and he appears in many places very quickly...
Passage by the council seems unlikely; success at the polls will require a fierce battle with opponents. A similar measure was defeated in more liberal Madison, Wisconsin, last spring, 51% to 49%, after an advertising blitz by the N.R.A. "Everyone is looking for a magic solution," says James Fendry, head of the Wisconsin Pro-Gun Movement. "We see the ban as broadcasting to gang bangers and druggies that their victims are less likely to be armed." Noting that Wisconsin has nearly 1 million licensed hunters, Fendry doesn't give the petition a chance. Nor does alderman Fredrick Gordon, who represents...