Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endured the centuries. "Biz hundert un tswantsik [until 120]," says the Jew on anniversary occasions, expressing the hope that the honored guest may live to equal Moses' span. Last week Jews all over the world raised a figurative glass to one among them that had reached the magic year: the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper...
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death...
...Marcel Camus has surrounded a legend that was old when the Greeks told it, with the rhythm of Negro music and singing, with magic borrowed from a dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
...concluding days of Moscow's 22nd Party Congress were surrounded by a strange air of magic and the supernatural. The long list of speakers ritually cursing Stalin's memory was joined by frail, elderly Darya Lazurkina, who, as a fresh-eyed girl in 1902, had been a devoted pupil of Lenin. She was also one of the multitude of Reds purged by Stalin in 1937, and last week Darya told 5,000 rapt delegates that she had survived 19½ years of prison, labor camp and exile only because "I always had Lenin in my heart and asked...
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death...