Word: magician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somerset Maugham of adultery, Maurois framed his stories as conversations, recollections, letters. Their narrative line is sure, their characters well etched, their climaxes cutting. With a wave of his magician's hand he dismisses doubt. Maurois himself thought his stories "may be the best things I have written." Perhaps. More likely they are best as clues to his personality and his success...
Their styles of football contrast sharply. Yovicsin is known as a superb technician, particularly on defense. A Yovicsin offense means several extravagant variations on a basically ground-oriented attack. Blackman--with a little help from Life--has built a reputation as a magician, with an astonishing number of formations based on precise blocking and ball-handling...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...
During his heyday, art experts generally dismissed Erté's chaste variety of Beardsleyish Orientalism as an evanescent fad, like mah-jongg or the Charleston. Almost alone, French Critic Maurice Feuillet in 1929 hailed him as "a harbinger of the art of tomorrow, a prince of fantasy, a magician of conception." Feuillet may have been close to the truth. Last month, when Manhattan's Grosvenor Gallery put on display 179 early gouache and metallic-paint designs by Erté, the entire collection was snapped up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gallery has since been selling Erte...
...time he was twelve, Johnny had found his course. "That's when I answered a magazine ad that promised to make me a magician and also 'The Life of the Party.' " Not to mention the death of the household. He worked for hours every day at card tricks in front of the mirror. His mother says he was a pest: "He was always at your elbow with a trick." To this day, reports his sister Catherine...