Word: magically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students of other backgrounds want will absolve them from taking any other actions to improve ethnic relations on this campus. They believe that rhetoric is as strong as action. They believe that by feeling as guilty as possible for as long as possible, we will somehow arrive at a magic answer to the problems posed by racial differences. But this belief is just as wrong as the belief that it is always some other person's or some other group's fault that the lines of communication between students of different backgrounds have not been sufficiently opened. The fact...
...center for studios it is today--Star Wars helped create that too--Lucas' deal was arguably even more farsighted than the resulting film. Today he is as much a businessman as he is a filmmaker: his shrewd skill in reinvesting his profits (among other things, he owns Industrial Light & Magic, the premier special-effects house, and LucasArts, one of the nation's top four cd-rom makers) has enabled him to become sole owner of what is essentially his own ministudio. "I think what drives him as a businessman is control," says McCallum. "Control over his work. That's primary...
Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...able to fill in all the blank spaces of what, later on, was going to be my novel. But I left them where they were, leaving the story, because I am fond of unexplained blank spaces." Instead of chasing the impossible, Martinez writes about the magic and mystery associated with Evita with impressive skill and completeness...
...combining his unparalleled dimension of sound with the already brilliant development of characters and scenes, Williams forged a musical imprint into the minds of moviegoers everywhere. Star Wars: A New Hope reinstills what the original soundtrack embodied and gives a whole new generation the opportunity to discover the magic of Williams' music and the greatest science fiction epic of all time...