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Adlai is promising miracles: sounder money, but lower taxes; bigger federal spending, but a balanced budget; stronger defense, but end the draft. Barnum would exhibit him as the original magician if only Barnum were alive...
Conjurer's Secret. By never denying childhood's all-questioning view, Klee kept his magician's power to conjure up the fears and delights underlying the prickly defense of man's intellect. He viewed a line as a dot wandering through space, allowed his hand to follow his own inner promptings. But because what the unconscious tossed up was rigorously controlled by one of the keenest sensibilities in modern art, the result was a lifetime's staggering production of nearly 9,000 works which have an uncanny ability to communicate indirectly to man; their meanings...
...denoted a lushly thicketed lovers' trysting ground, later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Bergère first opened its doors on May 1, 1869, it specialized in jugglers, acrobats, clowns, wrestlers, singers, a woman with two heads and a "prodigious magician who swallows live snakes, rips open his stomach, and instead of vipers, pulls out Oriental pearl necklaces which he distributes to the ladies...
Politically, it was an extraordinary accomplishment to win two votes of confidence in two weeks by comfortable margins-and with two very different majorities. "You don't have a Premier, you have a magician," one Deputy told a Cabinet minister. At week's end, trying to capitalize on his temporary advantage, Faure announced that he would ask the Assembly to approve new elections for early December, with the hope of producing an Assembly with a more stable majority. Said Franc-Tireur sourly: "The Assembly, if it decides to dissolve itself, will have accomplished its first useful...
Glen Bowersock, as Prospero, gives a smooth performance, but fails to convey the full significance of the magician's own transformation. Nancy Curtis is a perfect innocent as Miranda, and carries off some of the finest lines in the play with irreproachable style. Competence prevails among the other members of the cast, and Jay Shuchter and Harry Bingham rise well above this level as Antonio and Sebastian...