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...second scene introduces Charles as the wayward parasite of the "mystic" John. During this scene any faith we may have had in John's psychic powers disentegrates because he explains all of his tricks to Charles. We learn that psychics actually are fruads, that this innocent woman is being taken in by these heartless...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mamet's 'Shawl' Hangs Heavy in the Summer Heat | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...dream." In his words there was an echo from his own background. Clinton and Nixon found friendship in the last year because of their shared interest in the future of Russia. But - there is also something about that high, lonely and rutted road of the presidency that evokes a mystic camaraderie among the small band of survivors. Clinton at the end quoted a hymn: "Grant that I may realize that the trifling of life creates differences, but that in the higher things we are all one." Was it the wind, or was there a catch in the voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...from Germany, are out of their wealthy little minds. They live in a mansion whose ceiling is painted like the Sistine Chapel, with either Siegfried or Roy (who can remember?) in place of Adam. Roy has a "meditation chamber" (the rest of us have dressing rooms) furnished with a mystic rug and cages for his tigers. They wow the crowd with heavy machinery and endangered-species eugenics. I love S&R. They march to the beat of a different drum machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas: Tonight! Miracles, Live! | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) Hwang spins a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reviews Cinema: Oct. 18, 1993 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betrayal in Beijing | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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