Word: magician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAGIC RESEMBLES A bad magician's act -- the skilled hands at work simply lack the ability to generate suspense or even to entertain. Part of the blame for this less-than-thrilling thriller lies with the ponderous pace of Richard Attenborough's direction, the same touch that made his A Bridge Too Far an hour too long. Nor is there much life in William Goldman's script, which uncomfortably straddles the genres of mystery and psycho-drama. The familiar theme of the mad ventriloquist and his not-so-dumb dummy can still invoke shudders, but the filmakers' failure to find...
...sweet magician named Corky (Anthony Hopkins) bombs before audiences until he adds ventriloquism to his act. His mannequin Fats, whom his agent (Burgess Meredith) calls "the first X-rated dummy on the block," is everything Corky is not -- bossy, crude, with a mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where...
Hull and Orr were their sport's premier ambassadors, Hull beaming broadly as he spent tireless hours signing autographs, Orr smiling shyly as the cheers swept over him. Orr was a magician, a man who accomplished what no other defenseman had ever done?become his team's main scoring threat. Playing for the Boston Bruins, Orr changed the dimension of the game, sweeping up ice from the far end of the rink and then scoring with his short-range wrist shot. Twice he led the league in goals, an astonishing feat for a defender. For a record three straight years...
...Center A, the noise level remains at a dull roar. Six candidates running for the position of chairman of the assembly stand before the group. Four are former members of the Constitutional Convention, one is a smooth-talking sophomore from Quincy House, and the other is dressed as a magician and promises to help disband the assembly...
Pfeiffer thus becomes one of the highest-ranking women in U.S. business. Still, while she will have a seat on the board of RCA, NBC's corporate parent, she will report to Silverman, the programming magician whom NBC hired away from ABC earlier this year to try to pull the network out of its last-place ratings slot. Silverman will run the network; Pfeiffer will use her extensive Government contacts on behalf of NBC and will be its spokesman in Washington at a crucial time-hearings begin next year on a sweeping proposal for deregulation of the communications industry...