Word: magician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...table by the stage, and after some fantastic salsa-dancing action--women wearing little beyond sequins and feathers--there is a magician, ponytailed, with two ponytailed assistants. And this magician's specialty is doves. Everywhere he is making doves appear. From his sleeve, a dove. From a newspaper, a dove. A balloon is popped, and a dove appears and flaps wildly. The crowd loves it. The doves appear, each one flailing its wings for a few seconds of chaos and quasi-freedom. Then the magician, with fluid nonchalance, grabs the dove from the air, two-handed, making from the explosion...
Shakespeare has caught a few breaks at the movies lately. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III became vigorous films that did honor to both the Bard and the medium. Now Julie Taymor, the magician who on Broadway turned The Lion King menagerie into masked enchanters on stilts, takes Shakespeare's goriest play, Titus Andronicus, and makes it vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness...
...United States Army veteran named Billy who has his own Web site (www.enigmar.com) also insists that we're all one year too early. Billy currently works as a computer programmer, psychic, magician and Native-American drummer. We say, if Billy isn't expert enough, then...
...them to women and we were ready to do our door-drop. Unfortunately, it was raining. (In fact, every time we ve ever had to do something for FM it s been raining.) And so, we opted to delegate, tapping Crimson presidential hopeful, Joshua Hal Simon. The "Little Magician of 14 Plympton," as he was affectionately known, jumped at the chance to demonstrate his dedication...
...Mannequin CLAUDIA SCHIFFER and magician DAVID COPPERFIELD...