Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...
Trailing by almost two-and-a-half lengths with a mile and a half to go, the Crimson created its own version of a magic mile as coxswain Ted Tsomides and stroke Matt Arrot called a well-timed power ten and the boat began to move on the Elis...
...Magic Labyrinth, Farmer
...being filmed, and who looked-successfully-for a way to get out? Well, it wasn't Ann-Margret, who stars in the movie as a prostitute with a heavy past. She remained in focus along with Co-Stars Jon Voight, Burt Young, and the magic team of Siegfried and Roy. The tiger felt better out of the glare of the klieg lights and was only reluctantly coaxed back on camera. But the temporary escape made a nice publicity Bengal for the movie, so to speak...
...Magic," said Harry Blackstone, the great magician, is "nothing but pure psychology - applied in the right place." That is probably as succinct a definition of the illusionist's art as anyone will ever come up with. What Blackstone discovered was not that audiences can be fooled. It was rather that they long to be fooled and are willing accomplices along...