Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guests, who paid $125 a head (dancing included) to sample the fare, the Waldorf's chefs did their best to duplicate the celebrity recipes on their own stoves. Diners concluded that some magic must have been lost in the translation. Nonetheless, given the apparent eagerness of notables to display their culinary prowess, celebrity cook-offs could become the biggest thing in fund raising since Girl Scout cookies...
...could sense the wierdness; the team in all capital letters in the Inquirer's standings was at the top of the heap. No, not just in May mornings, we've been disappointed by that before. But June, July, (what's going on?) August. Up by 15 1/2. The old-magic number box, usually reserved for teams like the Flyers, was now out for the Phils. 32--any combinations...
Perhaps the Fenway magic was captured--or portrayed, rather, since it may be impossible to capture--best in the sixth game of last year's World Series, a contest that Globe columnist Ray Fitzgerald described as "a Beethoven symphony played on a patch of grass in Boston's Back...
...spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make-believe no to the glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved...
BIRMINGHAM.' THE MAGIC CITY! . . . Firemen battering black women with high-pressure hoses, snarling police dogs...