Word: magicianly
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...eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created the seductive stand-ins. "It's pretty obvious he was attracted...
Everybody knows the story of The Tempest: the magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have lived on a desert island ever since Prospero's brother, Antonio, usurped the Dukedom of Milan and banished them. But now Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck Antonio's passing ship. Antonio and his fellow conspirators fall into Prospero's hands. With the help of the sprites that he controls, Prospero dictates the subsequent events on the island, cunningly arranging a reconciliation and improving his political standing. The play toys with our notions of reality and illusion, and presents an engaging debate about power...
Tita (Lumi Cavazos), the heroine of Like Water for Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
They were free to gamble the chips at games operated by student croupiers, including Blackjack, Clap's Rouet, poker and The Wheel of Fortune. A caricature artist, a D.J. and Bonaparte the Magician also entertained the "gamblers...
...hero; a man who rarely taught classes or took on doctoral students but is regarded as one of physics' great teachers. If some questions remain about exactly what made Feynman Feynman, and not just a garden-variety genius, that is no fault of Gleick's. A magician who reveals all his secrets, even from beyond the grave, is a magician no longer...