Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confrontation in the November election. For some voters, at least, the prospect is enough to start a small migration to Canada. In a last-ditch effort to start some domestic excitement, various professional and amateur politicians last week jock eyed to capture for themselves a bit of the vanished magic of the late Robert Kennedy. Despite much personal antipathy, some Kennedy forces have melded with Eugene McCarthy's. At a fund-raising hoopla in Manhattan staged by show-biz and artistic figures, Conductor Leonard Bernstein tried to re-orchestrate the R.F.K. melody for McCarthy: "What would Robert Kennedy...
Outpouring of Hate. Often he felt duty bound to tell his audiences painful things because "there are no magic solutions, we are not magicians or Santa Clauses." In rural Ontario, he told prosperous farmers that their taxes would have to pay for programs in the poorer provinces. In British Columbia, where the shipyards have been hurt by foreign competition, Trudeau talked, instead, about Canada's low-income minorities. "What about the shipyards?" a heckler shouted. "What about the Indians and Eskimos?" Trudeau shot back, "Have you thought about them...
...have the pick of my brother's harem." Lucille Ball to Raymond Burr in The Magic Carpet...
...body chemicals called "free radicals." These oxidizing agents touch off reactions that Harman believes cause bodily changes like hardening of the arteries, a commonly accepted sign of aging. BHT, on the other hand, is an antioxidant, a substance that retards those oxidizing reactions. It works its elixir-of-youth magic in mice, says Harman, by soaking up their free radicals like a powerful chemical sponge...
That Old Black Magic. So begins what must be the most unpleasant pregnancy on record. Mia Farrow seems to grow more sickly and emaciated the more her stomach swells, but she is built for the part of Rosemary and her skillful progression from pain to puzzlement to panic goes far beyond mere looks. The film's most memorable performance, though, is turned in by Veteran Ruth Gordon as the coarse and cozily evil Minnie Castevet-sniffing for information like a questing rodent, forcing Rosemary to drink her satanic tonics of herbs, dispensing that old Black Magic that she knows...