Word: magician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals...
Fred Astaire appears in a story about a magician who tries to break up a marriage...
...approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio announcer, Martial de Villemandy, who was quickly arrested at a village bistro not far from the scene of the crime...
...magician with a bat, Cobb was almost as wizardrous in the field; he once threw three runners out at first base from the outfield in a single game. And on the base paths he was dazzling. Swirling through a cloud of dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready...
...what they know--and what they don't." He is clearly delivering a message, more clearly because he is so out of tone with the film. This same conscious search for certainty and safety links the knight of The Seventh Seal, the aging doctor of Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and even the distraught schoolboy of the earlier and less sophisticated Torment...