Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explosives technology, chemical and bacteriological warfare and anti-ballistic-missile systems. For its services, SRI last year earned revenues of $70 million. Last week it became apparent that in addition to its other projects, the institute has been seriously investigating the so-called psychic powers of a questionable nightclub magician...
Steve also engaged in a brief discussion of the changing nature of theater with an interested spectator, who expressed the theory that improvisations are the wave of the future, and he played magician for a while. Paul was more relaxed than Steve, which enabled him to carry the show when Steve got nervous. Paul played the Narrator and The First Walker...
...Sunlight Dialogues evolves from the return of a once-prominent local lawyer to Batavia; self-exiled because of personal and financial disasters. No longer quite sane, Taggart Hodge assumes the pseudonym of the "Sunlight Man," a mystic, magician and aspiring philosopher king. Much of the story takes the shape of a thriller, replete with jail-break, murder, appearances and disappearances. But Medievalist Gardner doesn't stop here. The secretive dialogues of Hodge, an elusive and outspoken anarchist, with Batavia's strict law-and-order police chief (hence the title) are strangely reminiscent of Grendel's talks with Unferth in Grendel...
...development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated by directors liked Alfred Hitchcock, who sketches out every shot of his films in cartoon style before shooting begins, or Alain Resnais, who has admitted the influence of the comic strip Mandrake the Magician in the making of such innovative films as Last Year at Maricubad. Sequences use the same language a fantastic ambiguity that transcends what seems "just reality...
...short, given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian religion and the new consciousness. But when the smoke and the rhetoric and some cadavers have been cleared away, there stands Clumly (much humbled and wiser) as, by God, some kind of confused, committed, ignorant, rumpled, preposterous champion of Western culture...