Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magician, a palm-reader and several studentsinging acts worked to keep non-gamblersentertained...
HYPNOSIS. The original hocus-pocus has moved off the magician's stage and into the doctor's office. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 15,000 health professionals now practice the technique. While not a cure, making healthy suggestions to hypnotized patients, studies show, can help them heal faster, give up smoking and other bad habits, and feel less pain -- long after a session ends. One remarkable study showed that burn patients heal faster, with less pain and fewer complications, if they are put in a trance shortly after they are injured...
...this time four years ago, the Democratic presidential contenders were roundly derided as "the seven dwarfs." Ten months later, Michael Dukakis began the general election campaign with a double-digit lead and George Bush seemed doomed. "It is always volatile," says Roger Ailes, the media magician who helped guide Bush's comeback in 1988, "and it is sure to be volatile again. If 75 years of communism can collapse in three days, anything is possible, anywhere...
Sometimes the economy seems to fall prey to the quick hands of a magician. Now you see a recovery. Now you don't! Barely a month after economists proclaimed the end of the 1990-91 U.S. recession, some are beginning to wonder whether they will have to eat their words. Their doubts come on the heels of some disturbing evidence -- rising layoffs, a traumatized banking system and crippling debts -- that the economy may be in worse shape than anyone suspected. The pessimists believe the recovery could soon sputter out and turn into another recession, the second half...
Another developer has picked Orlando for a project on an even higher plane: a 480-acre theme park called Vedaland, scheduled to open in 1993. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the saffron-robed Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the world (and to the Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose...