Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gore said all communities should pursue their plans, even if they don't receive federal funding. The vice president compared the situation facing these communities to the story of Dumbo and his magic feather...
This move came on the heels of the council allocating $8,000 to subsidize a Penn and Teller comedy-magic concert in Sanders Theatre, also to be held during reading period...
With its innocent story and the grand emotional pull of its Tchaikovsky score, The Nutcracker is one children's entertainment that rarely fails to work magic: every expectation aroused by the music is abundantly satisfied by the dreamlike cogency of the fantasy onstage...
...homilies with his usual gimlet-eyed glee: "You ever see a dog roll in carrion? Well now, a city boy see that and he might get tempted to join the dog . . ." The old hipster even indulges in a bit of moralizing, making a somewhat heavy-handed connection between the magic bullets and the temptation of drugs...
...unveiled in 1990. But rarely has opera received a shaking like this. The victim is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (The Free-Shooter). First performed in 1821, it was the granddaddy of all German Romantic operas, with its setting of a folktale about a forester who accepts magic bullets from the Devil to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. For Waits, Burroughs and Wilson, what the opera provided wasn't an Ur-text but a pretext...