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...word “celebrity” for a particular reason. Michael Jordan is an unambiguously great basketball player, and he is a celebrity because of that; however, Jordan will remain a celebrity after his skills have declined beyond recognition (which may in fact have already happened). The magic of celebrity is that it transcends a person’s qualities—a man or woman can then be famous just for being famous (Carson Daly comes to mind...
...equipment market to staggering growth, with unit shipments of home and business hardware climbing 319% in 2001, according to the research firm In-Stat/MDR. More than 19 million Americans are expected to use Wi-Fi by 2006. That growth, real and projected, has moved techies to imagine a magic, seamless, nationwide carpet of high-speed wireless access, available to all and as ubiquitous...
...course, if you don’t believe me, with my tales of miracles and magic and people speaking in tongues, that’s perfectly understandable...
This symbolism-rich world echoes of numerous historical and literary allusions, and itself is almost reminiscent of the South American magic realism style of prose. We revel in these whimsical fantasies, and it is almost disappointing that the City of Salt and its characters are merely the figments of Kahn and Selesnick’s minds. Yet the pictures are true enough that their melody might seduce us into believing such a prank—and never again know what is fact and what is fiction, what is logic and what is lunacy...
...host of other cheap, cheap plastic handle favorites on campus). Upon arriving at Walker it appears that the gate is locked, but Cappy insists that we squeeze through the fence anyway to get a closer look (at the parking lot). “This is where the magic happens,” he says...