Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the full-moon tides each May and June, tens of thousands of crabs swarm ashore like magic. Skittering shadows the size of an elephant's hoof, they mingle in piles along the water's edge. The sandy shoreline becomes the site of a vast, squabbling, tumultuous crab orgy...
...Figaro (1786) is set in Manhattan's Trump Tower, Don Giovanni (1787) in Spanish Harlem and Cosi fan tutte (1790) in a sleazy diner called Despina's. Nor does the Sellars game end ) there. At 31, the aging enfant terrible is talking of deconstructing Idomeneo in Brussels and The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne...
...begun. Since the fly is attached to the line with a gossamer-thin tippet, a fisherman must use the long, sensitive rod to tire the trout as it surges and runs, leaps and sometimes literally walks across the water's surface on its tail. There is no mistaking this magic. The fish explodes again, up through a silver shower of water, shaking its head in an effort to throw the hook. You notice the color. It is gorgeous, almost surreal. The trout's meaty flanks sport outrageous spots of black and orange, horizontal streaks of silver and red. The line...
...that those restrictions might be constitutional after all, the Governor called for more time to study the ruling. Hartigan went the other way. Pressured by abortion-rights activists who insisted they would never "endorse anyone who is not unequivocally for choice and willing to say so," Hartigan uttered the magic words: "I support the woman's freedom of choice...
With him, the Celtics alternated winning NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers and Magic Johnson. Without him, the Boys in Green bowed in favor of the Bad Boys, the Detroit Pistons, in three quick first-round games...