Word: merlins
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KATHARINE MERLIN, Town & Country: I think it will continue to hold its own in the astrological community. Curiously, Pluto is the "planet of transformation," so maybe this is entirely in keeping with what it symbolizes astrologically...
Herrmann was the first magician to be portrayed in a modern style--as a skilled practitioner of magical illusions--and not as a Merlin style mystic, Wilson said...
...nominated comedy, with 10 bids. The nominations were announced this morning, and the Emmy ceremony will be broadcast on NBC Sunday, Sept. 13. Other top nominees included NBC's medical drama "ER" and Fox's "The X-Files," each with 16 bids, and NBC's miniseries "Merlin," with...
...intense affair in the 1860s with a young Greek woman named Maria Zambaco, daughter of one of his London patrons. He cast her as a full-blown Medusan charmer, snakes twisting in her hair, and himself as the weakened magician under her spell, in The Beguiling of Merlin, 1873-74--King Arthur's court sorcerer reduced to hollow-eyed impotence by a magic fiercer than his own. "Now isn't that very funny," he wrote to a friend 20 years after finishing it, "as [Zambaco] was born at the foot of Olympus and looked and was primaeval and that...
This new-product cycle has a number of pros bullish on the sector. Sensing opportunity, New York investor Stuart Wiesbrod founded Merlin Biomed, a private health-care fund, just three months ago. He estimates that the entire biotech industry has a stock-market value of about $110 billion. That's less than the market value of one big drug company like Merck or Pfizer, each with market values around $140 billion. Yet the biotech industry has 600 drugs in advanced development, vs. maybe 20 for each big drug company...