Word: magicians
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Greenspan is the first to proclaim that his job was made dramatically easier by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the technology-fueled transformation of global business and the long decline in the price of oil and other commodities. He was not a magician, just a very competent central-bank chief with a knack for being in the right place at the right time (not only at the Fed: as a young man, he studied music alongside future saxophone great Stan Getz, learned statistics from the guy who devised the Index of Leading Economic Indicators and thought his first deep...
...love story splashed on a canvas of social upheaval: race riots, student unrest and draft resistance. What did the four fab Englishmen have to do with all these American crises? We have no idea, and neither does the script. But director Julie Taymor is a picture magician, weaving the fine old songs into a psychedelic tapestry of animation and choreography...
WOODY ALLEN: I agree. For me it was Wild Strawberries. Then The Seventh Seal and The Magician. We knew that Bergman was a magical filmmaker. There had never been anything like it, this combination of intellectual, artist and film technician...
...right. That was his obsession. He was brought up religiously [his father was a Lutheran minister], and he longed for the possibility of religious phenomena. That longing tortured him his whole life. But in the end, he was a great entertainer. The Seventh Seal, The Magician, they grip you. It's not like doing homework...
...Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, Cries and Whispers and Persona...