Word: magician
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Skaggs had finished his day's work, a double portrait of the magician Signor Antonio Blitz and his favorite wooden dummy. He decided to use the rest of the afternoon to start writing an essay, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's lecture last month, on the ways that railway travel and photography and the telegraph were warping the perception of time...
...luminosity only a matter of gaslight spreading into every dining room and parlor and respectable street. There were also the laughably large new panes of plate glass that amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed...
Christian Bale is a loose-cannon ex--Army Ranger in Harsh Times and a magician in The Prestige...
What's behind the box office of magician movies like The Prestige...
...around the room and asked each of us if we suffered from depression or anxiety and whether we were feeling any pain. If someone said they did—all the old women had achy joints—he moved his hand around like a magician and flapped his fingers in their direction. All of them said their pain was gone. After that, he started lecturing. During the two hours we spent listening to him, he said things about daily exercises (do them), psychotropic drugs (don’t take them), and water (don?...