Word: magicianly
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Merlin is a name to conjure with. He last appeared on Broadway in Camelot as the house magician, turning a common urchin into King Arthur. But playing the palace was nothing compared with his latest assignment. In a new show that bears his name, Merlin has been called on to change a dog into...
...Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...
...twilighted by drugs. The patient is always a kind of prisoner, arrested by accident or manacled to his genetic linkage. But as Medved's thorough probings indicate, the doctors, nurses and attendants are not wardens. They are far more authoritative: they are descendants of an ancient caste of magician-priests who, despite exposés and malpractice suits, still exert a vital influence on our bodies, to say nothing of our imaginations...
...success of these slim volumes lies in Jones' choice of collaborator: a spellbinder named Rudyard Kipling, who spins haunting yarns of a cobra-slaying mongoose and an arctic mammal growing from naive pup to leader of the pack. But most of the credit must go to the illustrator-magician who makes 90-year-old stories as immediate as the dreams of youth...
...five-year-old daughter, he dodges the issue, afraid that she will tell him he's the girl's father. In one scene, Patti and Jerry are watching an elaborate floor show when Alex comes by and drags Jerry away on "business." As Patti watches them leave, a magician on stage saws a woman in half. The implication is clear, and as subtle as anything else this movie offers: through his insensitivity, Alex has cut into Patti many times...