Word: magicianly
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...bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality. And Giraudoux's own resolute but compassionate worldliness does touch Ondine with glints and flecks of gold. There are, too, bright-colored court scenes in which a magician conjures up events to come; there is a high-mannered court practicing the flatteries and-deceits that Ondine cries out against; in Mel Ferrer, there is a handsome knight for her to love; in Marian Seldes, a finely haughty rival whose hopes she dashes...
...dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician but the court confectioner...
...diplomat-magician failed? The tricks had always worked before. Explained one Western observer: "It isn't the trick which has changed. But the kids have grown up." The West had indeed grown up, and showed a surprising unity in defense. But the Russians have only aged rather than grown with the times. With practiced skill, the West's Foreign Ministers took up Molotov's GETO. It was clearly a proposal to push the U.S. and Britain out of Europe and lock the European countries up with an aggressive Russia...
Faberge's famed intricate Easter eggs, which Russia's Czar Nicholas II used to present to his czarina. A 3-in.-long golden magician box asked questions at the press of a button, answered them to music. Q. "What lasts for too short a time?" A. "Love." The last time such a collection went on the block, so had the head of its owner, Louis XVI of France...
With a plot that requires virtually the entire population of Bagdad, including Omar Khayyam, Kismet casts Actor Drake as a resourceful poet who is, at different times, not only rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief, but also magician, prisoner, emir, and father of a beauteous maiden (Doretta Morrow) who wins the love of the caliph. Seldom has the path of true love run with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though...