Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television, which once seemed a magic carpet to elective office, seems to have lost some of its talismanic quality, and is least effective in local races. More than ever, the ingredients of political success are charisma, stamina-and lucre. Indeed, whether or not inflation proves a telling issue with the voters in November, politicians agree that the cost of campaigning has soared almost beyond reason...
Most entertaining is a kinetic, eight-minute Creation, astir with turbulent photography. Unfortunately, it is a long way from The Beginning to the end. The Word is interpreted altogether literally, neither revitalized with the logic of drama nor illuminated by the magic of myth. The film simply plunges ahead with quasi-King Jamesian narration, supplied by Playwright Christopher Fry and spoken by Huston himself, a mighty celestial circuit rider on the sound track. "God blessed them and said: Multiply," the voice intones, clearing the way for a shot of fuzzy, nuzzling seals and simultaneously raising questions of identity. There...
...magic number is still...
...throughout the world vary considerably. Britons belabor one another with icy scorn, Greeks bang their desk tops, and Italians hurl inkwells. The U.S. House of Representatives has witnessed its share of fist fights and even, in the 19th century, quick-draw confrontations with cocked pistols on the floor. Black magic has its place in the legislative assemblies of modern Africa. Last week in South Korea, a new, but old, weapon was added to the armory...
...project: the beautification of schools in the city's poorer districts. "Broken windows cost the District of Columbia $118,000 each year," she says. "I stood in front of a school one day and counted 26 broken windows on one side alone. But-and here is the magic-at the nine schools we have landscaped, the breakage has dropped to almost nothing...