Word: magicianly
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...image of the face via the representation of the body's juices - the tongue (bringing out the insides) - which doubles as a heart and a foot . . . The ice bag on the head signifies that the subject was on my mind ... I alternated between the image of a magician and that of a clown, trying to make a combination...
...transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ. Yet it was not until poets like Christopher Marlowe and Goethe took up the legend that Faust became...
Ironically, the four evil dudes that Harvard was basically concerned with last weekend turned out to be somewhat less terrifying than the Crimson had originally anticipated. It was Harvard's shocking offensive ineptness, and a ballhandling magician from Boston named Reginald Bird that sent the Crimson home emptyhanded from the yearly back-to-back crushers for the fourth consecutive winter...
...youthful spirits and calculated razzmatazz, Godspell just about succeeds. Set on an empty stage backed by a chain link fence (part schoolyard, part concentration camp, tres modern), God spell manages to overcome its environment--and, to some extent, its genre. The parables and paradoxes which Christ produces--like a magician running through his patter--are really just excuses for songs and jokes and snappy impersonations. And so, the father of the prodigal son is made to speak like Jimmy Cagney and when he announces the homecoming celebration somebody shouts, "Let's Conga!" After all, no one's going to listen...
...daydreams of a rich little hippie who is known alternately as Susan and Noah (Tuesday Weld). S/N has a button-down suitor (Philip Proctor), a lover named Mitch (Jack Nicholson) who may or may not have recently murdered his wife, and an unhappy penchant for remembering an old Jewish magician (Orson Welles) who told her parables one day long ago in Central Park. Jaglom spends most of his time cutting abruptly back and forth between scenes of fantasy and reality with a technique that is about as experimental as your cousin's old Chemcraft set. Eventually S/N, unhappy with...