Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that you have 'Cause there's magic in my eyes...
...Kempner clinic at Duke University Medical Center for a course in dieting. The pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication, a bland diet consisting mostly of rice and a rigorous regimen of exercise...
...written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild, anarchistic imagination...
...vignette of the Simba rebellion, which it purports to be, it is arrant nonsense. The Congolese national army, which it depicts as heroic, was in fact undisciplined and corrupt. The Simba rebels, portrayed as raping terrorists, were in fact relatively disciplined. Held in thrall by a powerful black dawa (magic), the Simbas were forbidden to steal from the whites or even lay hands on a white woman-whose touch, they believed, was evil...
...latest nonfiction book, The Promise of Space, Clarke foresees the ultimate magic of travel to the stars. "It is not difficult," he explains, "if one is in no particular hurry." For flights that will last from decades to hundreds of years, he has worked out a method that will avoid dooming travelers to spend most of their lives in space. Simply send egg and sperm cells on the trip, he says, and have computers mate them some 20 years before the voyage is to end. After that, he suggests, "carry the embryos through to birth by techniques already foreshadowed...