Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYGROUND. Parents can park their progeny here, then, unfettered, enjoy the adult attractions. Created by 13 top Danish artists and architects, the playground has everything to charm a child: fireflies flitting in trees, tiny-tot tables and chairs, shallow canals with paper sailboats, a hide-and-seek maze with magic mirrors, an S-shaped slippery slide in a giant sandbox, and legetanter (play aunts) to share...
...long-range view: fantastic models of future machines fell, slice and eat trees, and extrude four-lane highways; cities spring from the bush; hotels float underwater; moon hostels house whoever gets there. FORD. Instead of a Ford in your future, you can put one in your past-on the Magic Skyway, a superb bit of showmanship. In a Ford, you will scoot around Disney dinosaurs, watch a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex getting the best of a tough old Stegosaurus, and pop in on a happy household of hairy Homo sapiens...
What do stubborn children, fortunetellers, jugglers, gypsies, practitioners of hoomanamana (Hawaiian black magic), sleight-of-hand artists, common fiddlers and persons who paint their faces have in common? Under the varying laws of the 50 states, they are all vagrants and punishable by fines of up to $1,000 and two years in jail. Almost without exception, such charges would be laughed out of court. But vagrancy laws are so vague that they apply to a great many other people too-and when they are used, or when the police even try to put them to work, they...
...meet again. Too many home truths have been blurted-the loftily literary Ottensteen, for instance, reveals that he also writes boilerplate for the magazine section of the Yiddish daily under the pen name N. J. Felix. Holly wearily confesses that nothing happens any longer when he writes down the magic words tradition, tragic, committed, alienation. "The word moral looked mean and angry, ailing on the page. And two weeks ago, with the best will, I was unable to pull it through. Dead!" Finally, the three turn on Morroe, whose "moral hypocrisy," they decide, has led them astray, and exorcise...
...Brass Bottle. "This is not Baghdad, it's Pasadena!" croaks Tony Randall as a camel caravan approaches his front lawn. From the antique urn that he bought for a gift, he has uncorked a fat green djinni, waiting to get out and wield magic. Randall's djinni happens to be Burl Ives, who complicates a routine romantic farce by conjuring up slaves, seneschals, dromedaries, elephants, a shapely blue djinniyeh (Kamala Devi) and a tonic belly dancer (LuLu Porter). Soon, of course, Randall has to explain all the whimsical phenomena to his fiancée, Barbara Eden. This chore...