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...fact, they are the hokiest team in baseball. Their mascot is some horror-movie reject with a smiling baseball for a head, cleverly named Mr. Met. When a Met hits a home run, a sizable, but not actually big, apple bobs up from something that looks like a magician's hat. The stadium opens in centerfield to display a huge, distant U-Haul sign. Airplanes from neighboring La Guardia Airport fly overhead every other inning. Then there is a poor approximation of fireworks that I'm pretty sure is actually just two kids tossing up bottle rockets and running away...
...liked the magician too, when he made the coins disappear," Aurelia said...
...Cavanagh) is cuckolded by wife, loses Manhattan law-firm job, buys bowling alley in Stuckeyville, Ohio, opens a legal practice amid the tenpins and romances his high school love (Julie Bowen). Hence too the oddball characters: the preening slacker selling Kobe beef behind the bowling-shoe counter, the doddering magician suing a rival for revealing his secrets...
This year, the festival was largely a family affair, with numerous activities for the kids. On the main stage in front of the Holyoke Center, John Bonaparte '81, a.k.a. "Bonapart the Magician" performed. On Garden Street, there was an inflatable carnival where kids climbed the rock pillar and bounced around in the Moon Walk while at the Strong Man Hammer Swing their middle-aged fathers rolled up their sleeves and flexed long-dormant muscles...
Juan Maldacena with a set of mathematical equations is like a magician with a wand. He can take rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the-wisp interactions of subatomic particles. What's more, the associate professor of physics at Harvard University can perform the same trick in reverse, effectively concealing the rabbit back inside...