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...book a flight out of a city shut down by snow, arrange blood tests for a wedding, deliver 24 rolls of dental floss to a rock band at midnight -- with no questions asked. Welcome to the world of the modern-day hotel concierge -- part detective, travel agent, secretary and magician. In medieval Europe, concierges were simply doorkeepers. Today's concierges are polished executive servants who are called upon to fulfill a traveler's every whim, often even if it is outrageous or eccentric. In a field once dominated by men, more and more concierges are women...
Automated bank-teller machines can be maddening devices, but there is one thing they supposedly do well: protect customers' accounts. Not always, apparently. Police are looking hard for Robert Post, 35, a Polish-born electronics expert and former ATM repairman who brags that he is something of a magician. According to the Secret Service, Post last year managed to make some $86,000 disappear from cash machines -- all from other people's bank accounts...
...first time, the FAA can view all of the nation' s airways on one display screen. -- A "magician" exploits bank cash machines...
...play begins with a lively monologue by Lou (Kerrington Osborne), a magician dressed in minstrel garb, in which he deftly parodies the degrading roles traditionally available for Black actors. While he speaks, the rest of the actors are also onstage wearing black masks with grotesque white mouths and eyes...
PUIG IS not the magician with words that some of his contemporaries are; though perhaps partly the fault of the translator, his prose does not roll forward with the colorful sweep of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, does not maintain the lively, fresh tone of Julio Cortazar. Finally Pubis Angelical is not successful when considered as a whole. The three interwoven parts of the narrative do not converge to a single story; they are not unified by a definite connection between the characters, and their similarities do not, in the end, seem very convincing. The optimistic, peaceful conclusion of the novel...