Word: magician
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...wonder that Egyptians now refer to Henry Kissinger as "the American magician." On his fourth whirlwind visit to the Middle East since October, the U.S. Secretary of State last week managed to 1) deliver to Israel a list of prisoners held by the Syrians since the end of the Yom Kippur War; 2) persuade the Israelis to offer Syria preliminary proposals for disengagement on the Golan Heights; 3) restore formal diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S., which were broken off in the 1967 Six Day War. Shuttle diplomacy, it seems, is still working...
...wrote the cover story, managed to remain free of psychic interruption last week. "I got into this topic,'' he says, "through the back door - some would say front door - of magic and mentalism. There are many tricks with which one can duplicate paranormal phenomena." Indeed, Amateur Magician Kanfer astounded numerous TIME staffers last week by seeming to guess correctly, over the telephone, cards that had been pulled from a deck in Jaroff's office - which is one floor below Kanfer...
...contributed more to the paranormal explosion than Uri Geller, the handsome, 26-year-old Israeli former nightclub magician who seems equally adept at telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition. "I don't want to spend my whole life in laboratories," Geller recently told TIME London Correspondent Lawrence Malkin. "I've just done a whole year at Stanford Research Institute [TIME, March 12]. Now I'll go on to other countries, and let them see if they know what...
...table, her eyes brimming with tears. But she began to smile when Dr. Armand Brodeur, the hospital's chief of radiology, entered the room dressed in a smock covered with pictures of Snoopy and other characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Using the time-honored gestures of the magician to assure her that his hands were empty, Brodeur reached down and pulled a cotton ball from the child's ear, then made it disappear up his sleeve. Brenda relaxed...
...OUGHT TO BE WITH ME, Al Green. Ten in January. Green is a magician of sound, a brilliantly original songwriter and vocalist. His songs are fluid rather than traditionally structured; the 1972 hit, "Still in Love with You," was his best...