Word: magicianly
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...book by Sabatini almost impossible to stop reading? For the same reason it's almost impossible to stop watching the magician saw the lady in half. In Chapter 1 this author invariably tempts the reader to identify with a courageous young man, then thrusts the young man into marrow-freezing danger. From there on the suspense rarely lets...
Perhaps the wittiest street entertainer is a magician. Jeff Sheridan, specialist in levitation, prestidigitation and coin tricks, can usually be found baffling audiences at Sir Walter Scott's statue at 72nd St., just inside Central Park...
Think of him, classically, as a magus, both a magician and a juggler. Nicolas Roeg is a film maker interested not only in working spells, but in finding new connections between themes and images, keeping ideas spinning in the air like small silver balls, letting them fall in patterns that seem random but are, in fact, precise...
...question of who killed Boy Staunton was rung out in The Manticore, which took Staunton's alcoholic son through psychoanalysis. Now, in World of Wonders, a magician named Magnus Eisengrim appears, claiming he did it. Eisengrim is revealed (the author's opera cape swishes through empty air) to have been the premature child born on that fateful night in Deptford...
...Diana Rigg mesmerized students at Manhattan's New School for Social Research last semester with her comments about the pitfalls of performing in the nude. Said she: "I used to make my body up because otherwise you look like a piece of old cod under the stage lights." Magician Doug Henning demonstrated scarf tricks and philosophized on how magic led him to the study of Zen. NBC Newscaster Tom Snyder arrived for class with two mobile vans and a crew of 65. He then televised all the students on the Tomorrow show...