Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BILL CLINTON That which doesn't kill him makes him stronger. But will we think of him as President or Houdini...
ENTERTAINMENT Play You Never Can Tell by G.B. Shaw Song A Bird in a Gilded Cage Touring Houdini...
They just got two. First, Intel, the world's largest semiconductor firm, announced that its engineers had discovered a Houdini-like trick for stuffing twice the quantity of digital information in the same physical space on a chip. Then last week IBM unveiled what may be an even more significant advance: its researchers had found a way to replace the aluminum conductors in their microprocessors with copper, which is cheaper and faster. Says IBM vice president John Kelly, who has been experimenting with copper chips since the 1980s: "This...
...fascinating story is what happened in between to turn popular anger so swiftly from one target to another. It is the story of one of the greatest acts of misdirection since Houdini--pulled off, amazingly enough, by the very tabloids that were originally so under siege...
...sets and other minor revisions since Toronto), Ragtime combines big social themes, imaginative staging and emotionally involving storytelling in a way that has all but vanished from the American musical. Terrence McNally's adaptation deftly re-creates Doctorow's tapestry of early 20th century America, with historical figures (Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman) mingling with fictional ones like Coalhouse Walker Jr., the ragtime pianist turned antiracism firebrand. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens supply a score alternately catchy (the ragtime numbers) and affecting (a wife's proto-feminist lament, Back to Before). And director Frank Galati and choreographer Graciela Daniele...