Word: magician
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...with the word "sleep," and refers to a dangerous condition in which people inadvertently stop breathing while asleep. But the word literally means a temporary cessation of breathing and it is practiced (on purpose) around the world by an international community of extreme athletes - a brotherhood that now includes magician and stuntman David Blaine. On the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 30, Blaine broke the world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds - proving that just how temporary apnea can be is a question of training, endurance and will...
...ignoring the issues of colonialism and its abuses present in both Caliban’s character and the play as a whole. The interpretation of some characters differs from what would have been presented at the play’s inception. Prospero and Ariel are imagined as a Victorian magician and his assistant. One suspects that Ariel’s costume, which includes leather boots, fishnet stockings, turquoise eye shadow, and a top hat, was not the go-to outfit of most 17th-century fairies. Yet this change from the original version of the play effectively exposes the more ridiculous...
...Questions abound, both in the minds of the congregation and in the mind of the reader. Have Mariko and Maritha tended to their souls and neglected the needs of their bodies? Does a healthy sexual relationship clash with religious piety? It is only when they visit the traditional African magician, The Wizard of the Crow, that the couple finds a solution to their problem. Thiong’o suggests not only that Christianity does not preclude traditional African culture, but that it is at its best when it actively combines the two. In the central plot...
...African American National Biography, which its creators call the largest compilation of stories of black lives, covers 4,080 black Americans, among them men like George Washington Bush, a black settler allowed to own property in 1855, and Richard Potter, a black ventriloquist and magician born...
...have been too elusive. I was a little confused by the small set of secondary characters who revolved around the play’s core trio. A hedonistic Executioner (Hessel E. Yntema ’09), a lecherous Slave (Jan Luksic ’11), and a witchy Magician (Joanna Stephens) were all fun to watch onstage, but they seemed to exist on the periphery of the play’s thematic obsessions...