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Multiflex magician Joe Restic and the Harvard football team, coming to a stadium near...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Restic's Last Season: Wishing on a Star | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

Injuries and fatigue attacked Harvard right at the heart of its season, and when Locker the magician stuck his hand into his bag of tricks, he found that it just wasn't deep enough...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: The Hunt For a Crimson October | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created the seductive stand-ins. "It's pretty obvious he was attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Everybody knows the story of The Tempest: the magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have lived on a desert island ever since Prospero's brother, Antonio, usurped the Dukedom of Milan and banished them. But now Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck Antonio's passing ship. Antonio and his fellow conspirators fall into Prospero's hands. With the help of the sprites that he controls, Prospero dictates the subsequent events on the island, cunningly arranging a reconciliation and improving his political standing. The play toys with our notions of reality and illusion, and presents an engaging debate about power...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Tempest Creates Bleak Landscape | 4/15/1993 | See Source »

Tita (Lumi Cavazos), the heroine of Like Water for Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kitchen Magician | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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