Word: wand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must not let in daylight upon magic." This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand, a masterly and pricey piece of prestidigitation in which, at once, the old values are upheld, the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
...almost nothing there-you could take your fingernail and scratch it off," says Close. "It is rather like magic. When I get to the last color, yellow, you can't see the pigment come out of the air brush-it's like waving a magic wand in front of the picture, and the purple eye becomes brown. It's really quite wonderful; there are a few kicks left in this racket after all, and that's one of them...
...what can Wade Lau, the recipient of all the hugs, of all the handshakes, the man with the Golden glove on one hand and the magic wand in the other, say? Was this the biggest thrill of his life...
...like to rail against rising prices, many also derive some handsome benefits from it. They have in effect become a constituency for inflation. Says M.I.T.'s Lester C. Thurow. a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "Suppose you told small businessmen that you could wave a magic wand and bring the inflation rate to zero. They would think about it for a minute and say no. They have made some fixed commitments in loans and inventories that they would not want to live with...
...denies that the mere infusion of aid and technology will remold Nepal's political and economic institutions to conform to their Western equivalents. "It's very difficult to push through liberal democracy in a world that is really illiberal," he says. "You cannot change the world with a magic wand...