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Most professional magicians scoff at Blaine's dime-store bag of tricks: making a chosen card rise out of a deck or reappear after being torn to pieces. But in magic, style is everything, and Blaine's intense, streetwise persona is nothing like your typical gabby Vegas showman in a cape. His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
...will mark the end of one of the most storied and influential reigns in television news history. After virtually inventing modern TV sports coverage as the head of ABC Sports, Arledge was seen as something of an interloper when he took over ABC News in 1977. He brought a showman's flair to his new job, as well as a seemingly bottomless purse, hiring big stars like Sawyer, Chris Wallace and David Brinkley away from other networks. But he also proved to be a fierce and innovative advocate for hard news. During the Iran hostage crisis, he created Nightline, establishing...
...could such an outlandish performer find a place in the sanitized mainstream of pop culture? For starters, Manson is a natural-born showman with dark charisma and a knack for sensationalistic imagery. "This band has always been about pulling one over on the mainstream," he admits. Part Boy George and part Oliver Stone, Manson intentionally crafts his image to incite maximum shock. He often performs clad in jackboots and trussed up in leather. Onstage and off, he wears black lipstick and cakes his face in mortician's white, giving himself a deathly, freshly exhumed look...
White House operatives won't admit to the slightest concern that the Morris strategy invites charges about Clinton as medicine showman. They make the case that the President, in his march to the right, has magically recovered his true self--the New Democrat boy Governor who first attracted attention all those years ago, now grown up and gone to gray but still true to his school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter...
...race in New Jersey, called the presidency the "Holy Grail" of American politics. "When I first met Steve," recalls his friend Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter and author, "I said, 'I get it--the oldest-son reaction to Dad. Dad is colorful; Steve is sedate. Dad is a showman; Steve is reticent. In time I changed my view. The fact is, Steve has always held views that were daring. He's every bit as colorful, but it's all inside, not as showy. There's old Dad, with all his splash and dash; he ran for Governor. And there...