Word: magicianly
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...face of adversity may or may not constitute acting but is marvelously comic). Find herself pursued by one of organized crime's less organized branches. Fall into a loft and a love affair with the projectionist from a kung fu grind house. Find work as a gloriously addled magician's assistant. Get mistaken by the police for a prostitute. In other words, there is more to Roberta's modest attempt at an afternoon's adventure than she bargained...
...myself or anyone else too badly. If the aging superstar continues to carry the load, the aging process accelerates." However, Russell bore most of the heavy equipment, and when Cousy became unable to hold up all of his traditional parts, he changed roles without anyone noticing. Here was the magician's finest sleight of hand...
...where the good king Deramo is looking in vain for a worthy wife. His trusted but treacherous minister. Tartaglia, tries to insinuate his own daughter, Clarice, into the king's affections to distract the king from the beautiful Angela whom Tartaglia wants for himself. At the same time, the magician Duandarte, who long ago taught King Deramo the secret of inhabitating the bodies of other people and beasts, is returning to Serendippo in the shape of a parrot. Gozzi's fabulous fantasy concocted with generous helpings of magic and love is--some things are easy to guess--fantastic...
...King Stag has a meaning too. It ends when the magician Duandarte, like Shakespeare's Prospero before him, lays down his magic wand and returns to life among men and natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...
...position that a magician statistician turned down last spring is presumable still vacant...