Word: magician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasionally Nabokov plays games, as in the acrostic in "The Vane Sisters," but basically he eludes explication and literary criticism. He is a magician who gets us to watch the rabbit, not the false bottom of his hat. His style illuminates, it does not blind. In his autobiography, Speak, Memory, part of which is included in the present volume, he writes...
...Magician--Bergman. Starts Sunday at the BRATTLE...
...merger magician, Meshulam Riklis, 44, fits into a niche all his own. Starting in Minneapolis as a $50-a-week securities analyst, he stitched together a conglomerate composed of retailing, clothing, textile and theater companies with $1.4 billion a year in sales. Overextended and debt-laden, Riklis' empire almost collapsed five years ago. He rallied by selling off a big chunk of his complex to raise funds. Last week he climaxed his comeback by capturing his richest corporate prize yet: Schenley Industries...
...This trick can put us over on Broadway." Vincent Price in The Mad Magician...
...solen again in 1946, and again received national press coverage as it turned up on the stage of the Colonial Theater with Blackstone the magician, and again the same night with Orson Welles in a performance of magic at the Opera House...