Word: magician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watutsi ruler, Mwami (King) Mwambutsa IV, had made such a concentrated effort to dilute the caste system that in free elections the Bahutu majority overwhelmingly voted for a separate constitutional monarchy under his leadership. Genuinely popular with both the Watutsi and the Bahutu, Mwambutsa is an accomplished amateur magician who nightly performs his feats of prestidigitation as he tools around the hot spots of his capital city. Usumbura, in a white Edsel convertible, accompanied by his equally white Belgian girl friend...
Happily, the prestidigitator who presides over all this is Iris Murdoch, a literary magician who can transform a traditional romantic triangle into at least a hexagon at the split of an infinitive. As it turns out, every soul for miles around is both loved and in love-in every combination of age and sex known. But the often unseemly relationships never seem seamy...
...born rebel, and by the time he was 13, he was exasperated alike by the provincial dreariness of Charleville and the tyranny of his mother. In a heavily underscored entry in his diary, he formulated his doctrine: the poet should be a revolutionary and antiChristian, a seer and a magician, "the great sufferer, the great criminal, the great damned-the supreme savant." This was to be achieved by "the systematic upheaval of all the senses." At 16, he fled to Paris...
Golden Showcase (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). James Mason and Janice Rule star in "Tonight in Samarkand," the story of a lady tiger trainer and a magician...
Appearing on a double bill with Oh, Dad is another Kopit play, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, which appeared at Dunster House in 1959. This one concerns a magician who, unable to keep drawing crowds, retires to an abandoned house with his servant, a clown...