Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This magic I work, this loving I give...
...White Knight (for Ajax cleanser) was the most ridiculed horseman since Don Quixote. He galloped so many laps around the plains of suburbia 1,000,000 in five years that after a while, he became a rather endearing symbol of camp. What is more, according to one claim, his magic lance added a not-so-subliminal phallic meaning...
...According to the tender put together by Loeb, Rhoades (which should collect at least $500,000 in fees if the proposition goes through), Hughes would buy ABC shares at $74.25 apiece. That would be about $15 above the market price when the offer was first made, although the Hughes magic started ABC share values spinning last week, and the stock closed the week at 68 1/4, up ten points. A major objection from the network's viewpoint is that a cash purchase would make sellers liable to capital gains taxes. Goldenson would much prefer a stock swap that could...
...elsewhere? Grosjean hypothesized that he was dealing with a native Corsican people who had been at war with the Shardanes. The Shardanes had won, and hacked up the menhirs in retaliation. Grosjean suspects that the native Corsicans created replicas of their enemies, in hopes of capturing the invaders' magic. They may be the ancient people described by Aristotle, who "raised about their tombs as many obelisks as the dead man had killed enemies during his lifetime...
...wonderful--the clarity of language and the play's comic potential are unfolded in the exciting and inventive reinterpreation of dialogue and characterization, reinterpretation remaining faithful to Shakespeare's intent in its bawdy humor, essential ambiguity, and emphasis on magic. Reviewing Orson Welles' film Falstaff, the Crimson's Peter Jaszi attributed to Welles "a single overriding concern: to make the text, both the words and the visual images implicit in them, wholly and completely his own, and thereby to make them ours." This can, with A Midsummer Night's Dream, be said of Mayer, and his success is very much...