Word: wizardly
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Harry's story speaks first and foremost to a feeling most of us swoon at: the feeling of being deliberately, carefully, and specially chosen. Though he hadn't known it, Harry was destined to be a wizard--he had the mark of greatness on him. It just took someone with the right eyes...
...WIZARD...
...Hearing of Guinness's unrelenting modesty and bland wit, one is tempted to look for the actor's true self in some of the Ealing Studios comedies, perhaps "The Lavender Hill Mob" and its wan-on-the-outside hero, or the fabric wizard and social innocent of "The Man in the White Suit." But thinking that's Guinness up there onscreen is a mistake. He once said, "I try to get inside a character and project him - one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly...
...David Broder on Tuesday afternoon was seen tugging his nose and writing busily, and it's a decent bet he'd already started WP's lede effort, especially with embargoed copies of McCain's speech floating around since morning. But the wizard gets big elegance points for rounding up Tuesday in Philadelphia by the end of the second paragraph. Savor those transitions...
...seconds past the wizarding hour of midnight last Saturday, the most annoying and unnecessary marketing campaign in publishing history finally delivered the goods. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 734 pages; $25.95) would have sold millions of copies had its U.S. and British publishers simply dumped them in bookstores, unannounced, and then got out of the way as word of mouth spread among stampeding Pottermaniacs. That is pretty much the way the first three books about the boy wizard so phenomenally caught fire among young readers and then their parents...