Word: magicianly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manages to find an amazing amount of wiggle room. He is walled in by economic sanctions and no-fly zones and international inspectors, but he still pops out with one ploy after another calculated to thwart the U.N. and inflate his image in the Arab world. Like a stage magician, he fills his act with grand gestures and hoopla, but on close inspection the show can be seen for what it is: illusion...
Well, no, of course not. The movie contrived a situation, independent of any rational thought, in which people could be eaten by bugs. The entertainment value is commensurate with that of a magician handing you the six of clubs, face up, and then expecting applause when he deduces that your card is the six of clubs...
DIED. HARRY BLACKSTONE, 62, melodramatic magician whose sleights of hand conjured dancing hankies, floating light bulbs and the memory of his mentor, Harry Sr.; of cancer; in Loma Linda, Calif...
David Blaine desperately wants to be famous. After spotting Al Pacino in a Manhattan restaurant, the 24-year-old magician goes right over to introduce himself and do a card trick--but before he can start, Pacino brushes him off. Undaunted, Blaine tries again a few minutes later, sliding a deck out of his jeans pocket. "Pick a card," he says, quickly persuading the actor not only to count out 10 other cards but to sit on them as well. When the chosen card somehow "jumps" to his stack, Pacino pounds his fist on the table. "That is a beautiful...
...award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of which the Mutter is a part...