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Sometimes the economy seems to fall prey to the quick hands of a magician. Now you see a recovery. Now you don't! Barely a month after economists proclaimed the end of the 1990-91 U.S. recession, some are beginning to wonder whether they will have to eat their words. Their doubts come on the heels of some disturbing evidence -- rising layoffs, a traumatized banking system and crippling debts -- that the economy may be in worse shape than anyone suspected. The pessimists believe the recovery could soon sputter out and turn into another recession, the second half...
Another developer has picked Orlando for a project on an even higher plane: a 480-acre theme park called Vedaland, scheduled to open in 1993. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the saffron-robed Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the world (and to the Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose...
During the war in the gulf, the escapist magician made urgent reality inescapable. Television became spookier than usual in its metaphysical way: the instant global connection that is informative and hypnotic and jumpy all at once -- immediate and unreal. The sacramental anchormen dispensed their unctions and alarms. During the war, I found shelter in books in the middle of the night. They are cozier. The global electronic collective, the knife of the news, could wait until the sun came up. The mind prefers to be private in its sleepless stretches...
...gruffness, his size (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) or even his flare-ups. He is, after all, the Bear, whom some describe as only part grizzly and the rest Teddy. His wife Brenda and their three children know him as a pussycat: an outdoorsman, an amateur magician, a cookie muncher, a fellow who lulls himself to sleep listening to tapes of Pavarotti or the sounds of honking geese and mountain streams. So what if he likes Charles Bronson movies...
When that failed to stem the panic, the frustrated police decided to enforce a curfew along the road that passes in front of the presidential offices, thus protecting Nigeria's most prominent men from any magician, including one tempted to use the commotion to launch a coup...