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...which is but a casual sideline to Mason. His real passion is magic. Whenever he does a commercial, his parents allow him to pick out a toy (top price: $8.99), and he invariably chooses some magic trick. Between takes on the set he demonstrates his prowess to the crews, and they in turn have taught him to play craps...
...worst instincts. For Wells, an atheist, theological good and evil did not exist. Original sin resided in the pinkish gray folds of the brain and expressed itself through brutish linkage, which operated the prehensile thumb. Given tools enough and time, Homo sapiens would turn the most charming toy, the most fetching theory, into a weapon...
McGuane is of course a writer, full time, serious and solvent. The daydreams of alternate occupations are part of his openly boyish nature. He has just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...
...television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney World; and, through Disney endowments, the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Calif...
...explanation, the President told Moore that the investigation of Ellsberg could not have been left to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "could not be counted on doing it because Mr. Hoover was a close friend of Mr. Ellsberg's father-in-law," Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx. Added Moore: "The point was that the White House had set up a security operation to investigate Mr. Ellsberg's activities in leaking top-secret documents and possibly giving them to a foreign embassy of the other great superpower, and that the President said in view...