Word: wands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
...this time. The old legerdemain may save a kingdom, but it can't save this movie and, maybe, the fantasy genre. The man who soared on the zeitgeist can sink when it changes. George Lucas has worked his magic before and surely will again. But for now, the wonder wand is broken...
Scott Fusco sat in the stands, helpless to stop the screaming with a goal. Bourbeau's magic wand turned into--gasp--a hockey stick...
Aside from Ted Kennedy, most congressional Democrats consider Reagan's fiscal pieties gross hypocrisy. "His has been the biggest spending Administration in history," fumes House Budget Chairman William Gray of Pennsylvania. "And every year he returns to the tired old rhetoric that a line-item veto is the magic wand that would bring down Government spending...
...toward God, and lung trouble from a hatred of one's own body. "All you have to do is release these problems," she says. She uses amethyst, rose and blue quartz, and even black onyx and obsidian. One of her satisfied customers is Annette Manders, who wields a crystal wand that Lucia gave her. "I healed a fungus under my toenail with my wand," says Manders, "and I had a stomach problem that doesn't bother me anymore. The energy is subtle. It's not like you're being zapped...