Word: magic
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...with rage, he manages to suppress a violent outburst when his sweetheart declines his marriage proposal for another man. Believing his fighting prowess would find him fame overnight, he complains to his handler that his most recent display was underappreciated “magic”: “Magic? You just pissed on a gypsy in the middle of fucking nowhere. It’s hardly the hottest ticket in town.” The world takes its measure of Charlie Bronson, and finds him wanting. But his return to prison isn’t far behind...
...started, and where to land. They could have done it in a Boeing, too. But it was helpful to their immediate cause that they were working with the product of [Airbus engineer Bernard] Ziegler's mind, in which computers took care of the menial chores, then conjured up a magic carpet for them...
...evocative installations. The work represents the struggles of slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad, a theme Biggers recalls in several pieces. “Constellation” evokes heavenly constellations and quilts marked with secret codes that helped guide slaves to freedom. “There is something magical about this work; the light from below gives the installation a celestial mood...” says Raymond C. Traietti, Assistant Director at Memorial Hall.“Biggers demonstrates a great range in his work; he is a sculptor but also involves music, video, and performance in his creations...
...exhibition is geared towards Harry Potter enthusiasts, and those searching for a stronger link between the magic in the wizard world and the science in ours may be disappointed...
...have been able to land successfully if the plane didn't have [that technology.] They probably would have pulled off the same success. But this was a particularly easy airplane to fly - it stays where you put it, automatically, in terms of attitude and bank. They were in a magic-carpet machine...