Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nixon did not fly through the Middle East on Aladdin's magic carpet. He rode on Henry Kissinger's coattails...
...silent screen, Keaton was the funniest, the most sensitive, the most intelligent. He is, above all, too good to lose, and the MFA deserves praise for resurrecting his genius. Tonight's film is about "a humble movie projectionist who is transformed into a master detective thanks to the magic of the silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like these playing for free at a neat place like the MFA's outdoor Sculpture Court, there's no reason in the world to sit home and be bored tonight. The show starts at sundown...
...were once again being pulled out for street decorations. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were on their way for this week's meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev-the third summit in as many years. Yet the concept of détente has lost some of its earlier magic. Both sides will have to work hard to show that it is not only alive but thriving...
These are not the only games calculators will play. They can perform mathematical magic acts undreamed of by their designers. An example: take a figure that is double your age. Add 5. Multiply by 50. Add the amount of change in your pocket, up to $1, and subtract the number of days in the year. Add 115. Divide by 100. The calculator will display two numbers to the left of the decimal point, two to the right, showing respectively your age and the correct amount of money...
...both sides of the Atlantic last week, old comrades peered across the decades at the magic, terrible day 30 years before when the Allied armies invaded Normandy. Omar Bradley, one of D-day's last surviving great generals, attended ceremonies on Utah Beach and paid homage "to all who sacrificed where only God could witness their charity to their fellow man." Hugh Polley then a Candain sergeant major, recalled being wounded three times. "Don't ask why I went back to the fight. I don't know myself. I landed in the first wave...