Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Novotnŷ. Today, under the new reforms of Alexander Dubček, they are commonplace. Life in Czechoslovakia rings with the sounds of freedom. Despite a constant threat of reprisals from the Soviet Union, the political change has not only transformed public life but worked a captivating magic on the people's mood. It has made Czechoslovakia the most contagiously exciting country in Eastern Europe-and perhaps in all of Europe...
...HemisFair. The weddings, the cockfights, and the bustle of the marketplace are all there, recorded with droll candor and naive precision. The wonder is that this bewitching pageant, the hit of the fair, is contained in a single building in Las Plazas del Mundo. In fact, "The Magic of a People" is a human comedy on the scale of Tinker Bell. Its 41 tableaux were composed by U.S. Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, who used 8,000 Latin American dolls and folk figurines from his huge collection (see color pages...
...doll collecting is a passion that began in the 1920s, when he bought some Russian dolls in a London shop. The complete Girard Foundation collection today consists of some 100,000 items, including doll houses, and other memorabilia from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. To install "The Magic of a People," Girard worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for three months. Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a New Mexico friend, helped by selecting and installing the rocks used in landscaping...
...sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic...
...mining the magic of the impossible, Clarke has uncovered the material for 40 volumes that have sold more than 5,000,000 copies-to say nothing of hundreds of articles in Sunday supplements and magazines ranging from LIFE to Playboy. His energy is impressive. In Colombo, Ceylon, where he has lived for the past twelve years, the author taught himself to be an expert skindiver. He has explored many tropical roofs, and charted and searched sunken wrecks in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Inevitably, he has also written extensively about underwater exploration...