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...last noted American to visit London stayed in a glass box dangling over the Thames. A few might have been happy to provide similar arrangements for me." PRESIDENT BUSH, who was greeted with protests during his trip to London, referring to a stunt performed by magician David Blaine...
Your people item on magician David Blaine, who spent 44 days suspended in a Plexiglas box above the banks of the Thames River, referred to his "starvation for attention" [Nov. 3]. This was completely unwarranted. Blaine's stunts may be sensational, but there are easier ways to get attention. Blaine instead gathers his audience with performances of little illusion or fanfare but much talent and extreme physical control. He's impressive and inspiring. I have even thought of him while in the throes of labor pains, deleriously wondering to myself, "What would David Blaine do?" AMY SCHEER Orange City, Iowa...
Triumphing over extreme hunger, cramped quarters and churlish Londoners who whacked golf balls at him and tried to cut his water supply, magician DAVID BLAINE finally emerged last week from the Plexiglas box in which he had dangled above the banks of the Thames River for 44 days. Blaine said he staged the public endurance test to display "the ultimate work of art ... human suffering." Upon exiting his box, the frail showman burst into tears. Blaine, who had lost nearly 60 lbs., was rushed to a hospital and given nutritional drinks before being allowed his first solid food, a handful...
Richardson’s first Harvard lecture was delivered by Higgins Professor of Mathematics Joseph D. Harris, who replaces Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 as mathematical magician-in-chief...
...hands of underground-comic pioneer Spain Rodriguez, the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel (later a 1947 movie) gets the cartoon treatment its subjects--hustling and degradation in a 1930s carnival--beg for. Magician Stanton Carlisle hatches a plan to pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...