Word: magician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radio has put its hourly news broadcasts online so a listener can hear, say, the 11 a.m. daily broadcast at any time. HotWired, the online edition of Wired magazine, plans to use the technology to broadcast a quiz show and is also developing an online talk show with comedian-magician-computerphile Penn Jillette...
...with a misty melody and a huge set that flies away in a spectral swooosh! H.G. Wells zips through the centuries in his Time Machine and escapes the clutches of the dreaded Morlocks in a getaway that puts the Miss Saigon helicopter to shame. And at the end another magician, the EFX! Master, sits atop a crystalline globe held in a huge hand. He's an imp who works miracles...
...SECOND TIME IN HIS LAST two novels, literary magician Mark Helprin, 47, offers the reminiscences of an eccentric, brilliantly cross-grained geezer. In his 1991 novel, A Soldier of the Great War, he portrayed an indomitable hero who was a soldier and lover when young and, despite adversities, a philosopher and contemplator of art when old. It was perhaps the work of a young man assuring himself that life can be a reasonable, dignified progression toward...
...marvelously imaginative tales has always required wafting along with a flood of eloquence and accepting that floods are by nature excessive. There are few authors of whom it is less profitable to ask what in the world he may be getting at. Among novelists who fall into the magician category, Joyce and Nabokov, far more cerebral writers, could produce verbal astonishments as readily. Not many others come to mind. If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every few pages...
...those bootleg tapes made it into my eleventh-grade hands several years ago. Through the tape, I made the acquaintance of such colorful personas as Frank Rizzo, Al Justice, Tarbash the Egyptian Magician and the now-notorious `auto mechanic.' The Jerky Boys, posing as a variety of abrasive or downright bizarre characters, have made almost 100 calls to businesses in the northeast United States and beyond...