Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine matter, Fischer is the only grand master who rarely agrees to settle for a tie game. Even when he is far ahead in a tournament and could coast, he usually answers a request for a draw with a rueful, smiling refusal and then fights on until that magic moment when "I can see their ego crumbling." Says Bobby: "The game, not the tournament result, is the main thing...
...course, they already were. There are some brutes whom not even Orpheus can charm, much less Marsyas. An essential aspect of the Orphic myth is that the sweet singer could attract the maenads to pursue him, but could not stop them from tearing him to gobbets; art, a magic key to the irrational, cannot always control the emotions it unlocks. Hence the idiocy of the comparisons that get drawn between Stones concerts and Nazi rallies. Hitler was in command of his audience; Jagger...
Sprague almost left the law before really getting started: "I went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, but I hated it. It was unreal. Then I got a job as a public defender. That took me into court, and I loved it. The courtroom was something magic. It was like a play, unfolding, developing...
...brothers leave for the city when they are flooded out, and on the way Macunaima bathes in a magic fountain which turns him white--and into another actor. This white actor goes through several changes of hairstyle, which as far as I can tell have nothing to do with either plot or political significance, and which typify the director's casual attitude to details. During several crowd scenes some of the extras look more interested in the camera than in the antics of Macunaima, and when Macunaima dies, bloodily, in a stream, a rubber hose can dimly be seen pumping...
...outswanned them all at the Swan Ball in Nashville, Tenn. She was not there for social swimming, she explained, but for Art-an exhibit of her collages and drawings at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center. It was Gloria's fine-line slimness, though, that caught the eye. What magic diet had brought her 5 ft. 7½ in. down to 98 Ibs.? "It just happened," she told Columnist Eugenia Sheppard. "In the mornings I just drank a cup of coffee. I was working all day in my studio, so I ate a bowl of Granola, one of those health...