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Each trio of plays was directed by Alan Schneider; each lasts barely an hour, excluding intermissions; each offers an indelible evening of minimalist theater sorcery. The one visible magician is Whitelaw, for whom Beckett wrote the two sepulchral mood pieces Footfalls and Rockaby. Scraping across the stage or hardly moving in her shroud of a rocking chair, she performs daredevil isometric exercises of the soul. - By Richard Corliss
...talk anything but nonsense." Not long afterward, Novelist Samuel Butler decided that "if ever a spirit-form takes to coming near me, I shall not be content with trying to grasp it, but. in the interest of science, I will shoot it." Exposes began to play the vaudeville circuit: Magician Harry Houdini showed audiences that the mysteries of spontaneously moving objects were no more than sleight of hand and, sometimes, foot. The Fox sisters, one of them by now a hopeless alcoholic, finally confessed that the strange rapping had been done by manipulating their big toes...
...Penitent he still refers to Israel as "my late brother and master." Sinclair's luminous little volume is hardly the definitive study of the brothers Singer, but in its examination of sources it shows why Isaac has earned the title he once bestowed on another character: the magician of Lublin. Writing in Yiddish, using the demonic forces of art and recollection, he has kept his brother's memory alive, raised a ruined city, given the power of speech to a vanished people and revived an ailing language. Is it any wonder that...
Inoue's forest of comedy, fantasy, biography and satire remains untranslated in the West, largely because of his incessant wordplay. But the writer whom Japan's critics have called the "magician of language" plans five novels that will convey universal meanings and ideas. Says he: "I would like to make my ways of expression so transparent that anyone in the world can understand what I'm saying...
...drink? Were the windows open in their hotel rooms? What events did they attend? A more detailed survey went out to all 4,400 Legionnaires who had attended the convention, and 3,500 were returned within three days. Other agents followed up stray leads, like a call from a magician who admitted lighting a sparkler at the hotel. Back in Atlanta, clinicians noticed the high white blood cell counts in specimens from the victims, and began to search for bacteria under their microscopes...