| 单词 | magician |
| 例句 | We headed over to the Country Store and, like magicians, turned quarters and dimes into gelatin-based sweets. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The magician scans the office, a stack of letters in one hand, a black velvet cape lined with shockingly white silk cascading behind him, expecting a paper-wrapped box or crate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But I can tell you one thing. They’d be far beyond the abilities of an ordinary magician. You’d need to be incredibly magical to even use them. Like, born magician magical. Like Moreau himself or...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A false accusation—especially against someone trying to help—could mean blowing the best chance I have to learn anything at all about Moreau and being a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But Xan remembered enough from the magicians who raised her long ago that rearing a magic baby is no easy matter. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “We felt it first. She went to the magicians to warn them. Glerk!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z At this the Wart felt he had been a beast He dressed himself in silence and hurried off to find the magician, On the way he was caught by his nurse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The magician wasn’t invited to the secret meeting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The Head Sister was supposed to carry the magicians on her back when the volcano erupted, but she did nothing of the kind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Join us, girl. You won’t want to find out what we do to those who betray their fellow magicians!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Earlier, he’d brought the candles out of his pockets and sleeves like a magician. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A bumblebee came zooming between them, under the grandstand and out into the sunlight “Would you like to see some real knights errant?” asked the magician slowly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And, while the corps de ballet pirouettes and leaps across the stage, Tim breaks his magician’s code and tells me exactly how the trick is done. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z In his well-trimmed beard and dark master’s robe, he still reminded me of the stereotypical evil magician that appears in so many bad Aturan plays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Like Mom and Dad were the magicians and you were the rabbit they decided wasn’t good enough to be in their talent show. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I always think of it that way: “Here comes Steven, bursting into his Big Solo. Watch those hands — they’re too quick to follow. Holy cow, this kid is a magician!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman is a magician with clothing, the papers say. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Was that some kind of tribal name, some magician’s title?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hands like a magician revealing the table, which was in plain sight. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Remember in second grade when that magician came to the school fair?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The article went on to list Orson’s additional talents as an oil painter, magician, and makeup artist. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “You might not have a choice, Amari. If you were ever to be challenged by another magician, you could have your magic stolen. Magicians don’t survive that.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If she really has info about Moreau, even just about being a magician, this could be major. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The boy watches both the magician and his modest audience curiously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My mind flashes back to the last time I was in a conference room—when everyone had just learned that I was a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The bright eyes peering out from under a cloud of unruly brown curls are smaller, wider versions of the magician’s own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There were usually at least eight wagons in our troupe and well over two dozen performers: actors and acrobats, musicians and hand magicians, jugglers and jesters. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was a-tingle, the way a magician must feel when he swallows fire, because suddenly I knew that the boat was mine. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The magician stood up as straight as a pillar, stretched out his arms in both directions, looked at the ceiling and said the first few words of the Nunc Dimittis. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It never dawned on me that it might be just as hard to keep being a magician a secret. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “No, you asked me about the current number of magicians and I answered to the best of my knowledge. That was our agreement.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Leo sweeps his hand through the air, like he’s a magician conjuring a world. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “She told me she wasn’t. And I’m not going to assume the worst just because she’s a magician—I’m one too and I’m not bad.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “A magician at the Bureau? The gossip practically spills itself!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “It was in Elf Ear, Nebraska, and the year was 1910, and my granny was eight years old, and her father was the most elegant and deceitful magician who ever lived.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Maddox is no magician. Besides, he is long gone. Though I hesitate, I can think of only one person who might be able to undo the enchantments placed on your brother.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But I don’t like to think about the ways a magician might go about making someone talk... Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It also happened that curious people came along, who had been told that two wise men, magicians or holy men lived at the ferry. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, 1 have got a magician for our tutor. He has a mustard-pot that walks.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the fact that he wants me on his side—the side of the magicians. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Arthur paused again for comment or encouragement, but the magician’s face was turned away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Gopal always said that magicians who were interested in letting people know how clever they were were not really magicians. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought about going back to Suttung’s hall and once he was there telling his brother that he had helped bring a powerful magician up Hnitbjorg, had even helped him to get inside the mountain. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z So bring on your clubs and parties, your acrobats and magicians, your dare-devils, jet cars, motor?cycle helicopters, your sex and heroin, more of everything to do with automatic reflex. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going up on the stage when the magician called for volunteers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish! Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is much in your constellation that isn’t clear. The snake that sought to protect you, for instance. I don’t suppose you have any idea who that magician might be?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She saw a group of magicians—old men and old women—betrayed by the Head Sister. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “A celt is a kind of battle-axe,” said Arthur, surprising the magician with this piece of information more than he had been surprised for several generations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The magician who’s been attacking the Bureau is the same person who took my brother. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “He is a white magician” said the Wait “You need not be afraid of him. He is my best friend, your majesty, and in any case he generally gets his spells muddled up.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He does have marvelous hands; my mother would have called them magician’s fingers.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ships did not sail by night, and any place where sailors put in might harbor a monster or a magician who could work more deadly harm than storm and shipwreck. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after everything, I’m curious to know more about being a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But everything has turned around so fast, like a magician’s trick: foreign hands moved behind the curtain and one white King was replaced with another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As Rasheed watched with anticipation, the way people wait the simple tricks of street magicians, Zalmai pulled on the TV’s wire, pushed the buttons, pressed his palms to the blank screen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley says the magician is a master of manipulating attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As Elsie and I are lifted up through the Bureau, Mischief has been giggling nonstop in the background saying, “I’m helping a real-life magician escape! It’s my crowning achievement!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “And they know you’re a magician?” asks a boy in a shiny, metallic gold suit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “It’s true then? I was born a magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z And then he tells us that magicians never reveal their secrets. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z There’s no way for me to know if these messages are really from another magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I was so cramped it felt like I was hiding in one of those magician’s boxes, pretending to be disappeared. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I heard all the worst magicians were illusionists.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A woman produces a $20 bill which Patrick examines with approval and just a hint of the magician’s sense of drama. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “If the dragon girl pays a small price, the magician girl can get knowledge vital to her quest.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Reverend Obertask looked very much like a walrus and not one bit like a magician. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Will, when I was a kid, I went through a magician phase where I wore capes and top hats everywhere. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “People are saying...Are you really a magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They passed a magician with a bald head, a street fiddler, and an umbrella seller, his wares opened around his feet like black silken mushrooms. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z “When the day comes that you have to choose a side—and that day will come—will you join your fellow magicians or would you side with this Bureau that hates everything we are?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Then you are a magician in your own right, sir,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z So she told them “Stay out of trouble from now on. It isn’t very easy to fix up things again. Remember that next time some ck’o’yo magician comes to town.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Maria is a magician. What if she accepted Moreau’s offer to join them?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z All of the versions of the Merlin story he knows involve the magician being imprisoned. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man on this stage appears older than the magician from the previous night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The filmmaker Georges Melies began his career as a magician and, he owned a theater of magic in Paris. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Things would be so much better if nobody knew I was a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The magician did not turn his head, and his hands lay still in his lap. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until right now do I realize just how much I’ve needed a magician friend. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Beethoven’s Fifth, if you please. Do you see what a magnificent magician I am, ladies and gentlemen? I just made a pianist appear out of thin air!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The magician closes the door behind him, dropping the stack of letters on the desk next to the teacup as he looks at the girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Do they hate magicians enough to really want to hurt me? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "Like a court magician paid to entertain royal children with fireworks and tricks?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Well, nobody gave the Night Brothers their magic. They were born magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But he could see her if he squinted—standing with the other magicians from the castle as the walls crumbled around them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She threw open her arms like a magician’s assistant. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The magician’s already sagging, ruddy face reddened even more. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z These newer magicians have been the cause of great tragedies and terrible disasters these many years. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I wrote my grandmother that I had watched a Chinese magician swallow three yards of fire. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were magicians in the forest also in those legendary days, as well as strange animals not known to modern works of natural history. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "How did you . . . what sort of magician are you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He’s more than that! He’s a magician with chocolate! He can make anything—anything he wants! Isn’t that a fact, my dears?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But as soon as we swung open the steel door, Ben’s face became a mix of excitement and panic, like he’d just been picked out of a crowd by a magician for the get-sawn-in-half trick. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “We can change people’s minds about magicians without hurting anyone. I’ve seen it happen. We just have to give them a chance to see who we really are.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t you rather be learning the truth about magicians? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The magician had tapped the wand three times and was about to say “Abracadabra!” or whatever Clayton imagined magicians say as they pulled off their magic trick. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “In my professional opinion, the incident with the Crystal Ball revealed just what kind of magician Amari is.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Seems more like a magician to me, pulling words from my heart I never knew I had. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The principal pulls the fabric off of the shape like he’s a magician and everyone says, Oh! and, Ah! Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that my cocoon has fallen away and I have emerged as a magician named Professor Alcofrisbas, I can look back and see that I was right. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Grandpop whipped the cloth from his shirt pocket again, like a magician does before turning it into a bird. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “The Apprenticeship spell isn’t the kind of thing you’d forget. It’s pretty intense, and it binds you to that magician forever. You two basically share the same magic.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He circled his hands over the bike, like a magician about to pull out a rabbit; then he popped open the seat to show us the cargo pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He invites me to join him and the magician for dinner, so I can see for myself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The magician was inside, with Archimedes sitting on the back of his chair, busily trying to find the square root of minus one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As if a magician’s wand had touched him, the garland of roses transformed him into a vision of Oriental beauty. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z "After all," the magician said, “she is a magic beast It seems possible.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The magician, the one you saw in Paris?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Freak is scuttling around behind me, keeping out of her way, but when she says that, I can tell he wants to know about his father, if maybe he really was a magician. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z There might be some kind of creature out there that eats magicians for dinner and lures them to its den through social media. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z This exciting idea made the King forget his question, and the two young men sat down immediately to draw their own blazons for the magician, so that there should be no mistake about the tinctures. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Right after you was born. He must be a magician, because as soon as he heard the magic words 'birth defect,' he disappeared." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “In no way, madam, unless you be a priest, a magician, or a man of medicine. My wife is being devoured by a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their bodies were gone, but the magician’s voice remained in the air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind spins at the idea that there is a whole organization of magicians out there that not even the Bureau knows about. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I can see no reason why you should not,” said the magician. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z While there are other not-quite holidays, though they are rare, the boy is not taken to see any other magicians. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “A classic of the magician’s craft. A trick not to be attempted lightly.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Is she in trouble now that everyone knows she’s a magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The curious ones asked many questions but they received no replies, and they found neither magicians nor wise men. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Salmoneus, according to this view, was a magician trying to bring on a rainstorm by imitating it, a common magical method. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Andrew, you see, was working with things he did not really understand; most magicians are. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “How sad. What happened to her? Did the magician kill her, too, as her punishment?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z No, I felt like a magician slicing myself in half, with Junior living on the north side of the Spokane River and Arnold living on the south. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re telling me magicians have the power to control computers with their magic?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Because if they knew the truth, that he’s a magician like me, things would be totally different. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He could remember the old magician his father had bought it from, and how safe he had felt when it was made fast over the exposed pulse through which his ka might try to escape. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “If I haven’t made this clear enough, there will be no magicians in my department as long as I am director.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, “of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has your master magician, your uncle, power like mine;?” asked the Queen, firmly seizing Digory’s hand again. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The magician’s eyes veiled themselves like a vulture’s, as he vanished inside his mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not all. Director Horus knows about you being a magician.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Very good. For now you truly understand the danger you are in. My master—a magician whose magic dwarfs your 100 percent—now possesses the Black Book!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He wanted to go down to East Stave to find the magician. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I shouted, “Stop laughing!” and he vanished like a magician’s handkerchief. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the ease of life in the Protectorate, she had never again been so happy as she had been in the company of those magicians and scholars in the castle. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He looked like the archetypal sinister magician that seems to be a requirement in so many bad Aturan plays. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thoughts that might have drifted away on waves of brandy otherwise remain intact in his head, confirmed and secured by a diaphanous magician. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There might be an upside to my being a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Or what? You and your disgusting magician friends will sic your nasty hybrids on me? You shouldn’t even be here!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But now Train Ear was face-to-face with the magician. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He’d learned the trick from an East Stave magician with a fire-breathing act that had run for years before the man had accidentally poisoned himself by ingesting kerosene. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Train Ear wiped his face and pushed the magician back a step. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z He was left-handed, and it always fascinated me to see the way he handled things, like a street magician’s parlor tricks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z This magician’s sleight of hand did not go unnoticed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was wondering with half his mind which of Kay’s questions the magician would choose to answer, but the other half was still upon the martial possibilities of the landscape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat down on the floor and drew pictures of clocks and gears, imaginary machines and magicians on stage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “I’m going to trust you with another really big secret, okay? I’m only telling you this to prove that being a magician doesn’t automatically make you a bad person.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “What makes being a born magician so special? It’s like...Dylan and I are connected somehow.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But between the chanting, the harp chords, and the train rumble, the magician was losing his audience. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Spit flew out of the magician’s mouth as he spoke. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Do you imagine that there are many magicians named Madame Violet?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Several months later, once he decides she is ready, the magician writes a letter of his own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “The Bureau has had one policy for dealing with magicians for over seven centuries. Lock them up and throw away the key.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A split second before they collided, the Special seemed to disappear, slipping out of sight like a coin in a magician’s hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I wish Maria were here, I’d ask her how she dealt with having to lie about being a magician literally all the time.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Besides,” Friedrick continues, “you must be asked such things constantly. I find I am more interested in learning about the woman than the magician. I hope that is acceptable.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A group of Junior Record Keepers awaiting Director Cobblepot shoot me nasty looks and mutter something about “unfair badges” and “stupid magicians,” but I ignore them. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “A white magician, what? How small the world is, is it not? How-de-do?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody can do that, not even the hungriest magician in the world. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z He lay in bed and tried to pray, but all he could think about was the magician’s coin: there and then gone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “But how can we be sure I’m a born magician? Couldn’t someone have given me their magic without me knowing?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Did Director Horus get suspicious about there being another magician on your side?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I soon found out that I wasn’t the only magician to turn to cinema. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Always like to meet magicians. In fact I always like to meet anybody. It passes the time away, what, on a quest” “Hail,” said Merlyn, in his most mysterious manner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “He must be a magician. Maybe he can help me get into the Inner City.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Just send us back at once, you accursed magician, or Basta here will cut the talkative tongue out of your mouth.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And this magician does not hide handkerchiefs within his lace shirt cuffs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why would that magician want to be nice to me?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “You shall supply the magical blood he’ll require to nourish himself back to a proper magician.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She told us about the detective who lived on the third floor and the nice woman down the hall named Bella who was a stage magician, while Audrey brushed Nana’s hair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Easy enough, a cheap magician’s trick, and Kaz knew them all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Is this what it means to be a magician? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I’d been looking forward to the magician later in this episode, but I say, “Yeah, I know,” and mute the video. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Also, how are you supposed to greet a fellow magician? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z For two weeks afterward she’d even decided she wanted to be a magician when she grew up. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Nobody even knows you’re a magician. Everyone wants to be friends with you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “She claims she can tell me more about Moreau and about being a magician.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “We thought America would be like this,” Alex said, pretending to be a magician with a wand and flicking it at the table. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z They bring us stories like Patrick the magician, engaging the top- down systems that want to find answers, complete tasks, follow narratives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On some nights, she would tell of chiefs, witch doctors, sages, warriors, sorcerers, magicians and wild, monstrous beasts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Gopal had taught me that magicians never reveal the secrets of their trade to laymen. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And Moreau’s awful deeds are well documented—as are the past seven hundred years of magician crimes in our world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Seeing Linus jumping up and down on the demonstration table and moving his arms like a magician about to pull a rabbit out of his shoe made them feel inadequate. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “But there’s a magician right here in this room,” Lara says. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Because I don’t want Meggie thinking I’m some kind of a magician, too.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “There’s no such thing as a good magician. Let’s not forget how close we came to canceling the training sessions this summer on account of those hybrid attacks.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “To put sentiment before power. You are unworthy of being called a magician.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “What’s your problem with me? I get that you don’t like magicians. Guess what? No one does. But you’re the only person who’s made it their life’s mission to annoy me.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He had been forced by Aladdin’s false uncle, the magician, to take up residence in the lamp and had been given power to grant everyone’s wishes but his own. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you get the alert? Moreau is free! The person who has the Black Book isn’t simply some apprentice magician. It’s one of the Night Brothers!!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Confusion take this shouting!” exclaimed the magician, stamping on his hat “May Castor and Pollux.... No, not again. God bless my blood pressure....” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A good magician wasn’t much different from a proper thief. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The magicians long ago had been studying boots just like these. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Yes, they still think I’m a magician,” Mo was saying. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Only an extremely powerful magician could’ve pulled off an illusion of that size without realizing it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z His wife was a magician with a needle and thread. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Well, it is not bad,” said the magician doubtfully, “and in a way it does look a bit like an M.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In Silvester the Second a famous magician ascended the papal throne, although he was notorious for having invented the pendulum dock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, sir. My friend and I want to change the world," Max says, waving her hand in my direction with the flair of a magician. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Did you know about him being a born magician?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If the other kids weren’t fond of having a magician in the Bureau before, I can only guess what they’ll be thinking now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "You're a magician!" my grandmother shouted, starting to wave her stick about once again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “I know she was famous, but you don’t catch the most dangerous magician of all time and not get famous. Maria was cool with giving Quinton the spotlight, though, letting him do all the interviews.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I say it mysteriously, like a magician presenting his next act. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It can tell you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Oh, flout the boy!” cried the magician passionately. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end, there had never been a magician as clever as Ignatia, and she had the entire Protectorate to prove it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "They are also used in certain spells and cantrips. If sir is a magician...?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A master of striking was like a chemist or a winemaker, but also a kind of magician. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The magician uncurled his beard and blew his nose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lara and her friends love anything that gets them more attention. Being the magician girl with a moonstone badge is the reason they’ll want to hang out with you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I certainly don’t appreciate being called a criminal just because I’m a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The scientists, although they happened to call them magicians at the time, invented almost as terrible things as we have invented—except that we have become accustomed to theirs by use. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If having magic makes me a magician and magicians are the enemies of the supernatural world like Elsie suggested...then what's going to happen to me now? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She waves her hand in the air like a magician. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z "Chops," Julian said, "is to magic what doing scales is to a chanteuse. Without it you cannot be a magician, with it alone you cannot be an artist." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He used his hands like a magician, as if he were about to produce a fan of cards. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Remember that I gave you a chance, little magician. In the end, we are all bound by our choices.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “This is about us, Amari. We’re the born magicians of this age. I realize now that this is our time, not the Night Brothers’.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Not a single magician in your family history.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “But what if she’s the same magician the Bureau is looking for?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I’ll bet it’s actually somebody pretending to be a magician just to mess with me.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Ugh. Like I need any more attention. It’ll be bad enough just showing up as the magician who received a moonstone badge this morning.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z After Vladimir's death, the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs was tasked with protecting the Black Book from Moreau and those magician apprentices who avoided capture. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Like a magician producing a rabbit, he pulled out the Archimedes sphere and began tinkering with the ancient bronze dials. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I wrapped myself in an illusion that can only be smelled instead of seen. You never know what supernaturals you’ll run into at the Bureau, so I make sure to always hide my magician’s scent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The announcement in the paper states that Hector Bowen, better known as Prospero the Enchanter, entertainer and stage magician of great renown, died of heart failure in his home on the fifteenth of March. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Maria is a magician, like me. So she wouldn’t need codes to shut down our defenses.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z We question him once a week and he refuses to answer a single question—says the Bureau is the enemy of all magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The magician clenched his fists, twisted his gown into screws, and began to shake all over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The beginning is that my great-grandfather was a magician, and long, long ago he set into motion a most terrible curse. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was plain that many people regarded them now as the companions of a travelling magician of unknown powers and purpose. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Us boogeyfolk know what you magicians are planning, and we don’t want any part in it. Please don’t force us, I’m begging you.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She had gone away ordinary and come back miraculous, like the ancient magicians who came down from the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have some mustard,” said the magician, when they had got to the kidneys. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who had watched the magician’s show before it came to a stop in mid-trick. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z And maybe I’m being dumb, but the thought of having that kind of power over people scares me a lot more than another magician does. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “That moonstone badge is only because I’m a magician, I think.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z And that he’s trying to help me with being a magician. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “No one at the museum knows, but the other automata I’ve seen were all built by magicians for use in their performances.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to learn magic to hurt people. I won’t be like Moreau and those other bad magicians. And you shouldn’t use that stuff either.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The amusing novelty of a tame tiger and a magician was over. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “And Moreau must’ve given her the same choice he gave me—Bureau or magician. And she dragged my brother down with her.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “I am not a magician, mon cher. I am, like you, a very puzzled man. This affair advances in a very strange manner.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The magician picked up a black case that he’d left on the floor and chased down departing train riders with his floppy top hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z But there have been magicians named Van Helsing inside the Bureau for centuries, I think. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “But then, we’re assuming she even is a magician. There are probably a lot of bad guys who wouldn’t mind using you for revenge since they can’t get their hands on your brother.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Thorndike, who grew up to be a magician, and Fingers Halloway, who grew up to be a pickpocket. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But there were no longer any organized traces of the chivalry of the Gael Merlyn met the King as he rode back from Sorhaute—a magician rather tired, and still unmounted. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Even today the artist remains a magician whose work can mystify and move us—an embarrassing fact to civilized people, who do not readily relinquish their veneer of rational control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are so many questions, from “Does using magic make you grow horns?” to “Did Quinton know you’re a magician?” to “What makes you different from all the magicians that committed so many awful crimes?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He lifts both his arms like a magician presenting a trick. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Are you a magician, then? A wej sprite who grants wishes? I’m superstitious, not stupid.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z TikTok has made capsule celebrities of young magicians, fashion mavens, political campaigners. ‘It’s hard to put the brakes on it. We doubled down’: Charli D’Amelio and the first family of TikTok 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z More important, up until a decade ago, they were the only places where magicians could teach eager teenagers like myself the right methods to produce ashen apparitions and the more complicated tricks that inevitably follow. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z For sure, other entertainers — film star Marlene Dietrich, magician David Copperfield — have sought to conquer Broadway with one-person shows. Perspective | Bruce Springsteen is a totally new thing for Broadway. Will it change because of him? 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Curtis slipped more smoothly into the role of Harry Houdini, the Jewish magician and escape artist, in the 1953 bio-pic Houdini; it was the first of five films in which he costarred with Leigh. Remembering Tony Curtis: The Best of Everything 2010-09-30T22:15:00Z In the goofball epic “Elephant Room: Dust From the Stars,” three endearingly dorky magicians travel from their basement rec rooms to outer space, where they end up discovering a mysterious “gathering place.” Review: This ‘Elephant Room’ Sequel Is a Goofball Epic 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z When the Duke of Wellington meets Jonathan Strange, the magician sent to the continent from England to help him defeat Napoleon, he is not impressed. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But after an almost three-year break Alan Davies is once more donning his duffel coat to appear as the as the grumpy, frizzy-haired magician sleuth in a new special: The Clue of the Savant's Thumb. Jonathan Creek returns – but what is the detective's appeal? 2013-03-27T15:42:41Z Watching “Uncoupled,” seeing that naked emotion, suggests a magician peeling back the curtain, showing you how the trick is done. In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Playable characters will include a magician, a femme fatale, a cop and a boxer. 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 3' gives its zombie mode a noir makeover 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z But he hopes they’ll consider the children who are truly helped by magic therapy, the magicians who deserve artistic grants, the illusionists who want to protect their creations. David Copperfield is the magic force behind a must-read congressional resolution 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s the story of a lawyer who seeks the aid of a magician to find his wayward son. The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z Clockworker, magician, filmmaker — each, at his best, is an inspired handyman, a tinker and tinkerer of genius. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z She was like a very deft magician, and every song sounded sacred. Listen to Dom La Nena 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Little wonder that the magician David Copperfield has said that this is the place he comes to when he longs to disappear. 36 Hours: Central Park, New York 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Those transformations, accomplished with sleights of hand worthy of a master magician, are probably the most entertaining and satisfying aspects of “The Audience.” Review: ‘The Audience,’ With Helen Mirren, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z In a fully networked near-future in which the most sensitive personal information is at the fingertips of electronic magicians, your character is set loose in Chicago. Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Wii U Is the Talk of the E3 Computer Game Expo 2012-06-10T21:22:17Z Faraday wasn’t born with extraordinary powers; he works to acquire them, learning at the hands of a magician how to use a uniquely constructed cape as an ultraweapon. Television Review: A Man With a Cape And a City to Salvage 2011-01-06T22:54:36Z The main character, a traveling magician, is an animated version of the taciturn Tati. Lines blur between animated, live action movies 2011-02-25T19:23:52Z And Anthony Van Laast is the choreographer and he’s just the best — a magician of movement. Lily James Taps Her Inner Meryl to Become a Dancing Queen 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Born in 1928, James Randi — a magician and escape artist — transitioned into using the tools of his trade to debunk psychics and televangelists. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Party Down,’ ‘Preacher’ and ‘Phoenix’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A conjuring magician, he performs a brief variety of self-lacerating rituals in slow motion, such as injecting a vein with soda pop as if it were an addictive narcotic. Alex Da Corte set Pop aflame at Art + Practice 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Eilenberger’s “magicians” are household names in Germany and much of Europe — which may partially account for the book’s success abroad — but they are relatively unknown in the United States. The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A panel of celebrity mentors was assembled to coach the budding singers, magicians, rappers, dancers and musicians. Surviving cancer, singing at Radio City Music Hall 2012-03-21T15:17:12Z "The Illusionist," the story of a scam artist who becomes an illusionist after meeting a magician in jail, won in the telenovela category. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T03:18:08Z Their definition of “artist” was reasonably broad: It included not only composers, musicians, dancers, and actors, but also journalists, clowns, magicians, and nightclub performers. Artists report high job satisfaction 2013-09-05T12:20:00Z If this were a tweedy English mystery, the magician’s body would wash up on shore on the last day of summer. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z A stage magician called Tommy Trent is travelling to the western front after being asked to devise a means of making allied aircraft invisible to the enemy. The Adjacent by Christopher Priest – review 2013-06-26T09:56:10Z Her life is filled with family and friends, with visits to the cafe magician and rides in the cable car. Summer Book Club: A girl from Chile becomes a refugee in ‘I Lived on Butterfly Hill’ 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z He works as a cabdriver in Las Vegas, shuttling passengers to see more successful magicians. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘High Score’ and ‘Magic Camp’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z He loved the freedom, he explained, and the feeling of community among the street magicians. Can Street Artists Survive a City in Lockdown? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Before the pandemic, London teemed with street artists and performers: Buskers sang to commuters on the Underground, street magicians entertained tourists, graffiti artists covered the city’s walls. Can Street Artists Survive a City in Lockdown? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z "The Night Circus" is the story of two magicians locked in a duel to the death near the turn of the 20th century, a time when magic seems to be losing its importance to humankind. 'The Night Circus': unwilling magicians locked in a duel 2011-09-16T20:13:05Z To find the monarch, the government enlists the Secret Magic Control Agency, a band of high-tech spies governing all the magicians and the use of potions and spells in the kingdom. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “Trump’s a magician who never finishes a trick,” he said. Late-night TV on Trump: 'A magician who never finishes a trick' 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z The scene stopped when a sight gag involving a small snuff can stuffed, like a magician’s handkerchief trick, with severed fingers and yards of entrails kept going awry. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z A magician never reveals his secrets, and like the best prestidigitators, Margolin manipulates readers into believing one thing, then reveals the surprising truth. Book Review: `Sleight of Hand' will shock, mislead 2013-04-09T14:32:09Z Me with the reviewer who said I looked “like a disgraced Vegas magician”. Has Steven Seagal proved you can be a Buddhist and a mascot for the arms trade? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Helped by only a small group of other young magicians, Carter and Sadie face all kinds of troubles in this hilarious, action-packed and dynamic book. The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan - review 2011-07-08T13:00:00Z Children's entertainers, a secret studios art trail, knitting, wood-engraving, folk bands and choirs might be expected, but magicians and Morris dancers should be the unexpected sparklers. This week's new events 2011-03-05T00:07:47Z Comparing himself to a magician, he says: “He gives you the illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of an illusion.” Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s about bumper cars and dry cleaning, magicians and supermarket check-out rubber dividers, marriage and the zip line. Review | Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Is This Anything?’ charts his life as a comedian, one bit at a time 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Daria, from Croatia, managed a costume change in midsong, with the help of an onstage magician who briefly shrouded her in a curtain. Music: Eurovision Song Contest Is a Sequined, Campy Balm 2011-05-12T14:59:28Z He’s far more expansive on the topic of his maternal grandfather, Max Katz, an accountant and amateur magician who introduced his grandson to a dazzling group of entertainers and future mentors. Movie Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ 2013-04-17T20:40:36Z But, regardless of the quality or scheduling of these shows, it's sad to see television bereft of magicians. TV magic shows: now you see them, now you don't 2012-07-05T11:19:34Z Almost a century after Houdini's death you'd expect professional magicians to be even more inured to the charm of their trade's trickery. Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z And amateur magicians try to fool Penn & Teller. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ and ‘Penn & Teller’ 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Then on Sunday at 3 p.m., there will be a screening of “The Prestige,” a Christopher Nolan-directed film in which two magicians upstage one another with risky tricks. Spare Times for Dec. 30-Jan. 5 2011-12-29T21:49:28Z I had been asked to play a magician before, but I had always declined. From a talking horse to the Dark Knight: Will Arnett ranks his own roles 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Insiders say the future looks brighter as Disney pyrotechnic magicians put the final touches on their next generation fireworks show, due to debut this fall. Stars Over Disney 2011-06-29T13:20:04.750Z It was far more educational than a stand-up comedian in a Vegas lounge, and much more amazing than any on-site magician or room full of video games. Following an 8-Year-Old to Atlantis 2014-03-07T16:28:34Z In the early 1970s, Salvador Dalí began work on a deck featuring himself as the magician and his wife, Gala, as the Empress. The Artists and Designers Making Tarot Decks for Today 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The show ended with the British magician Dynamo slowly strutting out on the runway, levitating and then seemingly making the models vanish as a rain of playing cards floated down from on high. On the Runway: A Harrowing Trip, Far From the Runways 2014-02-17T20:00:19Z I think that empathy is weaponized, often, especially by magicians, in a way that is not necessarily healthy or generous. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z We crave the contact, the chance to commune with these magicians who spin whole lives from mere words. The book is dead. Long live the book festival. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Here magicians were asked to perform tricks that would leave two of the worlds most famous and experienced tricksters baffled. Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z The looks of the characters are based on real magicians. Magic Man: A Q&A with Burt Wonderstone‘s Steve Carell 2013-03-08T13:00:42Z In the film, McGregor's unnamed character is portrayed as a jaded but successful hack whose last job was the best-selling autobiography of a magician entitled: I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered. You review: The Ghost 2010-04-19T13:02:00Z Martin gave me these lessons, and this man is an absolute magician. Jeremy Irons Is Transported by Renzo Piano and a Dog Named Smudge 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z For his last Geffen show, “Invisible Tango,” Guimarães was described by the Los Angeles Times’s Charles McNulty as “either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician.” Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is also a magician who uses rhetorical evasion, doublespeak and sleight of hand to work his public and the news media. Donald Trump must go full Wrestlemania: Winning in New Hampshire means going more ridiculous, more over the top 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Sorcar buzz-saws a 17-year-old girl in half on British television and the program suddenly cuts off when the obviously distressed magician is shown shaking his head over something that has gone terribly wrong. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Cyrano de Bergerac is, we are told, a “soldier, poet, philosopher, magician, playwright … and the best swordsman in Paris.” Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z A good stage magician leaves us astonished, not trembling that he or she possesses satanic powers. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Chef and owner Brooks Headley is a magician when it comes to making hearty, exciting food without animal products. What's the actual difference between vegan and vegetarian? 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The Tempest Independent Shakespeare Co. stages the Bard’s fantasy tale about a magician and others on a mystical isle. L.A. theater openings, July 31-Aug. 7: 'The Tempest' and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Originally hosted by comic Roy Walker, Catchphrase returned with former magician and occasional This Morning presenter Stephen Mulhern at the helm. ITV's Catchphrase spreads the word to more than 5m viewers 2013-04-08T13:07:09Z Further, online video chat ‘sessioning’ has put magicians in an even better position to get mentoring and correction,” he wrote. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Richard Wiseman's first career was as a professional magician and he was once one of the youngest members of the Magic Circle. Self help: try positive action, not positive thinking 2012-06-30T21:40:52Z The day after the debate, they were capitalizing on a report from The Hill newspaper that claimed they were organizing an “occult task force” of “chaos magicians, witches and energy workers.” Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z But politics and finances trumped entertainment, and plans to bring the American magician to a nation still technically at war with the United States vanished in the haze of diplomatic tensions. North Korea stages biggest magic show ever 2011-04-18T16:17:16Z "Hollywood is quite excited about magicians right now," says David Kwong, founder of the Misdirectors Guild which specialises in illusions for film and TV and is involved with all the above productions. Jesse Eisenberg works his magic 2013-07-03T06:59:08Z An accomplished magician, he delights in magic tricks. In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Long before Walt Disney and composer Paul Dukas, there were stories about magicians and their — usually — overreaching pupils. A summer book list like no other 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z His nickname comes courtesy of his first son, Klaus, whose nightmares Thomas alleviates by claiming to be a “famous magician,” much feared by ghosts. Review | Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Caine will appear in the forthcoming thriller about magicians Now You See Me 2 and the crime comedy Going in Style. Michael Caine: 'I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day' 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The magician Asi Wind makes no claims to supernatural ability or superhuman prowess. ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ Review: Pick a Card, Not Just Any Card 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z I ran these ideas by Aaron Fisher, a highly regarded American magician who did a commentary in July on his YouTube channel of an old live show by Mr. Berglas. The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z The magician’s cave, where the action takes place, becomes a metaphor for the theater itself and its ability to manufacture illusions that can reflect, refute or reorder the truths of the world. The Week Ahead: May 29 ? June 4 2011-05-27T18:10:22Z “Like the young magician in ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’” Wehrey writes, “the Libyan government was now beholden to an apparition of its own conjuring.” Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z He’s maintained a surprisingly low profile, earning his living at corporate shows and consulting with David Blaine, a producer of “Inner Circle” who calls Wind “my favorite magician.” ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind and His Sublime Card Tricks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In West Africa blacksmiths have always been feared as magicians because of their freakish, godly ability to smelt iron from ore, and turn solid to liquid and liquid to solid again. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z Now, the purported inspiration for Shakespeare's enigmatic magician Prospero in The Tempest and Marlowe's devil-dealing Doctor Faustus has taken someone else captive with his mystical charms. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z There’s a moment, about six minutes into The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, where its star, a magician, appears to be choking. Magic, meth and mayhem: behind the year's most mind-bending documentary 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z It is fortunate for Berman that he was able to see the bright side because to say the magician caused him “many problems” is like saying Noah and his ark encountered some bad weather. Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It's a magician's approach to stand-up, which is don't give away too much. Sarah Silverman's not kidding ... maybe 2011-03-24T16:26:00Z A magician's relationship with the audience and the audience's relationship with the magician has to be, I trust you. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Like a magician with a thousand hats and rabbits. Review: ‘Watchmen’ Is an Audacious Rorschach Test 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The magician and author Penn Jillette performs live shows with his partner, Teller, in Las Vegas 46 weeks of the year. What the Magician Penn Jillette Can’t Travel Without 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He performed his act to the sound of snickers and “sympathy applause” from fellow magicians, failing so dismally that he was curtly dismissed by one of the judges. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z They are judging other magicians here as well, but in a different way. 'Wizard Wars,' on Syfy, Lets Magicians Compete 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Standing inches from the picture’s surface you see why: His magician’s hand is right there in dabs, flicks, swirls that barely coalesce into images, yet do. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z To see them switching between Arabic and English and French: it was like they were sorcerers or magicians. One Thousand and One Nights: Dangerous liaisons 2011-08-09T20:30:02Z The same is true of Theory11, a website founded in 2007 by 11 magic industry insiders, which last year launched “The Wire,” a global marketplace that allows magicians to directly publish their creations online. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Photograph: David Fisher /Rex Features Last week was an especially bad one for television magicians. TV magic shows: now you see them, now you don't 2012-07-05T11:19:34Z In 1843 Charles Dickens wrote: "Home is a word; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to." Dramatic destinations: around Britain in 61 plays 2010-12-13T17:18:00Z Their owner, a culinary magician who strives to please the eye, nose and emotions as much as the palate, appears as stingy with praise as Mr. Wetzel is with beauty shots. | 'El Bulli': Pushing Cuisine?s Envelope, on a Molecular Level 2011-07-26T16:43:02Z Albert Garrick is a Victorian magician turned assassin who prowls the shadows of London town doing his grisly work. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z Woody Allen explores the mysteries of illusion and love in "Magic in the Moonlight," a period romantic comedy inspired by 1920s clairvoyants who were debunked by leading magicians of the day. Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Wizard Wars In the this new series, illiusionists and magicians use everyday objects for their tricks. Tuesday's TV Highlights: "Royal Pains" on USA 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z It may not win the Golden Bear, but Meryl and co might consider giving Diaz a one-off award as best magician. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z He turned to “The Tempest,” the late romance that includes flying spirits, a shipwreck, a vanishing banquet, and a masque-like pageant that the magician Prospero stages to celebrate his daughter’s marriage. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z He has a track record of withholding interpretive comment on his art — “I feel like a magician,” he said recently, “and magicians don’t give up their secrets” — and of thwarting critical consensus around it. From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z A magician throws the light and hides an elephant in the dark. “I reject the word ‘hoax'”: Laura Albert opens up about creating JT LeRoy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Card sharp … magician Dynamo is wowing TV audiences on Watch. TV magic shows: now you see them, now you don't 2012-07-05T11:19:34Z The magician stands before us and elicits “a particular kind of wonder.” Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The hilarious sketch shows Gillett wearing a flight attendant uniform and speaking to her husband, comedian and magician Wes Barker, as if he were on a flight. Flight attendant's hilarious work-from-home video praised online: 'This is so realistic' 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The production also breaks with tradition by having both male and female dancers play the role of the magician Drosselmeyer. As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Remember, all magicians got into magic from seeing magic somewhere, somehow. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z SAT Entertainment for kids of all ages; magician Jamtown percussion ensemble, 10:30 a.m. Community calendar 2011-11-16T23:08:03Z As one of the few women to hold this position of power – the magician is considered an authority figure, according to Solomon and various writing – Solomon has endured sexist and ageist remarks, particularly from amateurs. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She casually refers to herself as a magician. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘The Mountaintop,’ at TheaterWorks Hartford 2013-04-27T01:27:27Z DelGaudio is one of several magicians enjoying a resurrected fascination with magic. Derek DelGaudio's 'In & of Itself' fills in the blanks — and the seats — at Geffen Playhouse 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The reasons such legislation didn’t work is that people liked their own personal magicians, fortune-tellers or folk healers. Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Haversat is a magician and says the park is all about magic, “wonderment and enchantment.” A beloved Santa-themed kiddie park has reopened in Vermont 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The team that shot this show is nothing short of a magician level. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Thomas Edison's first Kinetoscope films were pretty much recordings of novelty acts -- sword-swallowers, magicians, Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's touring variety show. Indie film discovers sci-fi spectacle 2011-08-02T21:01:00Z "An Honest Liar" documents the life of magician and escape artist James Randi. From extreme catfishing to wine fraud, here are 6 documentaries about con artists 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Odette, the ballet’s heroine, is a woman who has been turned into a swan by an evil magician. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z This is known as forcing and is a principle by which magicians covertly guide you towards a predetermined choice. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The Press Trust of India criticised the film for its "exotic India package – snake charmers in red turbans, magicians who say abracadabra and slum dwellers who speak pukka English". Midnight's Children film to be shown in India 2012-10-09T15:41:55Z "It's a fascinating world, it's one that you don't really have to heighten or exaggerate all that much to get to comedy because it's already a crazy world of Vegas magicians," Goldstein said. "Burt Wonderstone" writers tap rivalries of Vegas magicians 2013-03-16T00:18:20Z A cop left for dead decides to hook up with magician pal and become a one-man avenging force for good in order to prove to his kid that: One Man can make a difference. After Lost 2010-05-25T13:03:00Z Now, in early-1800s Britain, the only people calling themselves “magicians” are street hucksters and stuffy academics, who study magic’s history without casting a single spell. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z At the apartment of one of Ms. Apple’s ex-boyfriends, the magician David Blaine, “we threw pebbles down his garbage chute,” she said. Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z He reaches down — a magician now — and plucks his trusted rabbit back into the light; he grips it and unlimbers himself and hurls the object back whence it came. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z In a Scottish pub whose owner is one of the magician's few admirers, Tatischeff meets Alice, a doleful young woman employed as a cleaner. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z Twelve final acts — including a magician, knife throwers and a sand artist — compete to be world champion in this season finale. What’s on TV Monday: ‘United Skates’ and ‘Manifest’ 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Viewers with intelligent eyes will note the references to an old magician named Lionel Shrike, and to the Egyptian Eye of Horus, whose creator hoped to restore his father’s life. Now You See Me: The Customer Is Always Fooled 2013-05-30T22:11:24Z Such job descriptions as "magician and children's entertainer" should have set alarm bells ringing. Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z “My fear is that they’re going to see me as just a Zoom magician and they won’t then book me in person,” she said. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z "I'm a magician, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a hint of magic," he said in a video produced by the academy. Oscars 2015: What to expect from host Neil Patrick Harris 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Here, fortunately, Swift gets the tone just right, and the magician’s act provides a wry context for Ronnie’s disappearance. Review | In ‘Here We Are,’ Booker Prize winner Graham Swift casts a spell 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z People told me he was a magician, and my heart sank. Magician Paul Daniels and wife Debbie McGee on their marriage 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Winter Solstice Pagan Holiday Show Celebration of ancient myths and rituals features acrobats, magicians, clowns and musicians. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 26-Dec. 3: 'Pang!' at 24th Street Theatre and more 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Apart from his business partner, magician Michael Weber, whom he also accounts a kind of late-life mentor, younger magicians are invisible, "this ongoing continuum of sleight of hand" notwithstanding. TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z From midway barker in a local carnival to bumbling magician to hypnotist's subject to traveling roadshow mainstay to actor in a theater troupe specializing in melodrama, Lyle is there. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Old Hollywood 2012-12-14T17:18:26Z Telling us the trick before performing it is an old magician’s ploy. Theater Review: ‘Tar Baby,’ With the Comic Desiree Burch 2013-01-10T21:52:00Z One of my favourite Malkovich films is a little-known comedy called The Great Buck Howard, in which he plays a famous magician fallen on hard times. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z For example, magicians use misdirection to manipulate what you attend to and this allows them to control what you see – and what you miss. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z He was a magician, and not a good one. Meet the incredible Mr Goodwin, daredevil extraordinaire 2013-03-01T14:00:00Z Lepage compares the revolving stage to a carousel or a magician's hat: "It feels very much as if we're all playing around in a playpen until something interesting, mature, exciting, poetic comes out." Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z In the play, he has Prospero speak, thrillingly, of resigning his powers as a magician. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z I read that opening monologue: “I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.” ‘Harry Potter’ Director’s 5 Influences: Kate Bush, Tennessee Williams and More 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Others are brand new, including the one that, by old-time magician standards, is probably the hoariest, the rabbit and the hat. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z A magician performed what he jokingly called “halal magic.” ‘I Am Here to Prove You Wrong’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z They were not only early risers but also magicians, guarding the secrets of their home cuisine more adeptly than Houdini. Global leftovers: what Airbnb guests bring to your fridge 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And the man turned out to be another professional magician. Hat. Rabbit. Spy Cam? Claims of Skulduggery at a Hot Magic Show 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The fantastical tale concerns a nobleman father who consults a magician about the whereabouts of his long-estranged son. Tony Kushner's 'The Illusion' reappears on stage in Seattle 2012-08-09T20:29:04Z As writers and magicians both know, details matter. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Caldwell worked as a magician before turning to balloons 20 years ago. They make balloons into a full-blown art 2010-09-16T19:42:00Z Dietrich and Brookz helped raise the funds, about $10,000, to re-create and install a new bust as negotiations between the cemetery and the magician’s estate stalled. At the Houdini Museum, in Scranton, Pa., indulge in a different kind of escape 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z A driven, obsessive purist, he was also a magician, creating lyrics and music to such towering shows as “A Little Night Music,” “Into the Woods,” “Company,” “Follies” and “Sunday in the Park with George.” Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Moss paid for his math degree at the University of Rochester, he says, by working birthday parties and performing on the streets as a magician. From thin air, 40,000 balloons add up to one giant public art installation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The Victorian writer’s version of the New Testament presents Jesus as a sort of benevolent magician. Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy walk into a church basement . . . 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z I could brag about the time Carl, a gifted amateur magician, cut me in two at a “Car Talk” fundraiser, but that would be half-hearted. Carl Kasell’s retirement will wait wait no longer Veterinarian: A sort of magician who pulls things out of a rabbit. Style Invitational Week 1204: At least ... 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z "I'm deeply proud of being a magician and trying to create a world that is metaphorically magical that represents the actual magical world that we live in," DelGaudio said. Derek DelGaudio's 'In & of Itself' fills in the blanks — and the seats — at Geffen Playhouse 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The job of a performing magician is, "after all, just tricks". Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z When I was in grade school, I stumbled on a paperback biography of the magician, where I learned about his lifelong commitment to debunking spiritualists, communicators to the dead and psychics. At the Houdini Museum, in Scranton, Pa., indulge in a different kind of escape 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Earlier, in the midst of their hunt for Architeuthis, Harrow and Parnell refuse to cross a picket line of magicians' familiars. 'Kraken': China Mi?ville's fantasy of London in a squid-obsessed apocalyptic frenzy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Featuring three stages, the event will include entertainers like the pop group Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets, the magician the Amazing Max and a puppet show by the director of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. Spare Times for Children Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Houdini, he said, “used to practice his underwater escapes in manacles and chains in the pool,” a fact that delights him, because he was an avid magician as a child. Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Suspending Disbelief, as 4 Flee Handcuffs It’s one thing to watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat. Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me,’ Directed by Louis Leterrier 2013-05-30T21:29:58Z That makes me more of a more potent magician.” And for His Next Trick, Hopping Genres 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z If you are ever longing for a sorcerous way to improve the picture on your driver’s license, he is definitely the magician to call. Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Wozniak is something of an amateur magician and he and Rogen spent a lot of time bonding at the Magic Castle, a magicians’ club in LA. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Masters of Illusion This showcase for professional magicians starts a new season. Friday's TV highlights: The WWII drama 'Fury' and more 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “I can make a facial tissue dance,” Said the magician, with a wicked glance. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Corny jokes for preteen folks inspired this edition of ‘Rhymes Against Humanity’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The comic magician, one of the best-known TV stars in the 70s, died after suffering a heart attack on stage, live on television, in 1984. Shameless star to play Tommy Cooper 2013-05-23T11:27:00Z Ricky was a friend of mine, a master magician, an incredible archivist and raconteur. Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The comic magician became one of the small screen's biggest stars at the height of his fame with his ITV shows in the 70s. Shameless star to play Tommy Cooper in ITV film 2013-05-23T08:59:33Z Like most professional magicians, he discovered magic early and worked at it obsessively, a process he details in a long video sequence that begins the brief show. ‘El Mago Pop’ Review: A Boy Next Door With the Magic Touch 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z For most magicians, this link between magic and psychology is obvious. Mind games: what magic reveals about how our brains work 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Playing The Great Paris, he essentially replaced Rollin Hand on the show, and used his history as a magician to disguise himself on missions. How to Watch Leonard Nimoy's Most Memorable Performances Online 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Overseeing all is the magician Zoroastro, sung by Hadleigh Adams with a dense yet flexible bass and a glowering presence, whether in the aforementioned leather, a pair of white briefs or a Santa Claus costume. Review: Handel’s ‘Orlando,’ the Second Part of a Trilogy 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The show has helped Hardeen learn more about the man behind the magician. Arizona man finds magic moments in TV show on uncle Houdini 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z I wrote down on that little piece of paper, I wanted to deepen people's appreciation for magic and magicians. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z He was vitally present, like a magician, conjuring all the amazing sights himself. Muhammad Ali at Fighter’s Heaven 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z An engaging performer, Cuiffo subverts the splashy style that many professional magicians are known for; he’s low-key, grounded in both his gestures and his manner of speech. ‘A Simulacrum’ Review: A Magic Show in the Making, and Unmaking 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z I am over shows where actual science and police work are treated like magic tricks, as if magicians were all horrible people with perfect teeth. TV spot for "Hot Genius Jerks With Quirky Jobs" 2011-05-31T20:32:00Z Just before I left, he tugged the cloth above his left biceps and showed me a fresh tattoo — a magician’s hat with a rabbit peeking out. In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z TanBA, a magician who had surprising success on “Britain’s Got Talent,” presents a frantic, pop-eyed act in which he swallows a dozen or more razor blades. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The addition of women this time is no revisionism — female magicians were often headliners in magic’s golden age. Women lead the 'The Illusionists' on Broadway this time 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s the instinct, when a magician shows you an amazing trick, everyone’s instinct is, “Show me, show me.” ‘It Chapter Two’ Is Out. Let’s Talk About Where That Clown Came From. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “I just want to create the material and be the best magician I can, regardless of my gender.” Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z On a Thursday night in December, Morey, wearing a microphone wrapped around his neck like a tie, kicks off Washington Magic, a monthly show he conceived last year with fellow magician Savino Recine. These Washington power players transform themselves into magicians one night a month 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z People don't realize that as a magician, I consider what I'm doing important. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Djemaa el Fna Square, Marrakech, caters to a very stereotypical western depiction of a mythical, magical “Eastern” world with snake charmers, magicians, and henna wielding women. 'You can't see the Empire State Building from the top': readers on overrated tourist sights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Williams himself was something of a Christian magician. ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z A juggler and a magician roamed through the crowd doing card tricks and passing out business cards, because a Rihanna fan is definitely looking to book a party magician in the near future, right? Rihanna kidnapped me to watch her new video: A diary 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Ten of the auction lots promote Howard Thurston, a popular magician who traveled with train cars full of equipment. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z In its 1984-92 run, the comedian/magician Harry Anderson played the judge/magician Harry Stone, who dispensed pranks and quirky wisdom in a nocturnal Manhattan courtroom that processed petty offenders. Are We Having Fun Yet? ‘Party Down’ and the Sadness of the Sitcom Revival 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z And the artist magician who breathed life into clay figures and wire armatures and made us, as kids, happily fear for our lives, was the dean of special effects, Ray Harryhausen. Steven Spielberg, Others Pay Tribute to Ray Harryhausen 2013-05-08T15:57:54Z Throughout his career, Mr. Lorayne continued to ply the magician’s trade, for many years publishing Apocalypse, a magic magazine, and producing books and videos on card magic. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Nick does, however, have one the best job description chyrons with “tailor/magician,” but that doesn’t make him less embarrassing to introduce to your parents. The Bachelorette Watch: Desiree Enters The Thunderdome Of Love (and Hashtags) 2013-05-28T09:45:39Z It is that curiosity that Kwong hopes will lead to a new generation of magicians. Jesse Eisenberg works his magic 2013-07-03T06:59:08Z He was, said Ford Madox Ford in a memoir, “a magician,” who “made you see everything of which he wrote, and made you present in every scene.” Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z One friend and mentor, Bizzaro, a magician in Las Vegas, relayed with a laugh a trick she does with a can of creamed corn, an illusion no one else has done. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Most magicians I see just kind of took their show and tried to put it on Zoom,” he said. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Though they can’t perform the ultimate trick of making the coronavirus disappear, magicians hope and expect there’ll be a significant amount of pent-up demand for their trade after the pandemic fades. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Just as he has established himself as the country's only magician, another emerges, seemingly in answer to the prophesy of a wild-eyed street conjurer. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' conjures literate magic world 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Seemingly miraculous powers have long been ascribed to yogis, fakirs, ascetics and jadoowallahs, or street magicians. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The resolution cites magician and theater director George Méliès, who is credited with developing stunning motion picture effects that launched cinema as an art and industry. David Copperfield is the magic force behind a must-read congressional resolution 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The Tyneside industrialist ploughed some of the vast profits from his Elswick armaments works – which employed 25,000 people at its height - into building his huge "palace of a modern magician". Palace of a modern magician to glow once more with his water-powered light 2013-03-15T17:00:00Z Also explored are an illusion in which a rope rises from a basket and is somehow rigid enough to climb, and the bullet catch, in which a magician supposedly snags a bullet fired at him. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z The good Prof was the creation of Norman Hunter, a stage magician turned children's author. The indefinable charm of satirical dictionaries 2011-03-01T12:07:50Z In his liner notes for the new recording, he makes a convincing case that both Scarlatti and Cage were “inventors of sounds, magicians of rhythm, creators of new languages that had never been heard before.” At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z On the show, other magicians try to get a trick past these expert illusionists in order to win a prize: a guest spot in their Vegas show. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z With his bullish figure typically dressed in elegant suits, and a magician’s just-you-wait smile often hovering over his face, he cuts a striking figure in a city arts scene dominated by bookish executives and technocrats. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Most of those buried here worked for circuses or carnivals; they were circus owners, talent bookers, stunt pilots, high-wire acts, magicians, strongmen, animal trainers. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z I'm sure for somebody, it's trauma from a really bad birthday magician. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z He’s a sweetly smiling mime, part magician, part maître d’. Art Review: ?Yves Klein,? Retrospective at Hirschorn Museum 2010-06-03T21:58:00Z At sunset, droves of visitors convene in Mallory Square to join the nightly gathering of magicians, jugglers, clowns, fortune-tellers, musicians, artists and food carts. Key West with kids — some explanations and exceptions required 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z This week’s voyage, the Halloween Ball edition, includes the children’s pop band Baze and His Silly Friends, along with a strolling magician and a face painter. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z During a performance of his famous box illusion, the magician somehow summons a strange clown, one with seemingly miraculous powers. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z At his home base, Hollywood's Magic Castle, he won the award of "stage magician of the year" in 2011 and 2012 and more recently was named "parlor magician of the year." Rob Zabrecky returns to Steve Allen Theater with magic, music 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “Empire of Enchantment” ends by tracing the careers of India’s most honored mid-20th-century magicians. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z PEORIA, Ill. — A private plane carrying magician David Copperfield made an unscheduled stop in Illinois after it made a "frightening" sound en route from Las Vegas to New York. David Copperfield's plane makes unscheduled stop 2013-03-04T16:55:12Z The camera looks up to the balloons, which are floating into the sky, while their seller seems to rise up with them and then return to Earth, like a magician. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “It’s an encounter between a poet and a magician.” Small, intricate pieces by Alexander Calder on display at a New York exhibition 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The stars of the show are Jack, the M.C., and a handsome young magician called Pablo who, together with his shimmering assistant, Eve, has taken the summer season by storm. A Love Triangle and a Variety Show in Seaside England 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z This December he made debuts in two of the ballet’s most unalike roles: the little heroine Marie’s magician godfather, Drosselmeier, and the Sugarplum Fairy’s cavalier. Fresh Dewdrops for New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And the enchantment of a magician’s goody box in your mailbox. Review | This Zoom magic show delivers a box to your house. Then it blows your mind. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Diana Wynne Jones, whose critically admired stories and novels for children and teenage readers imagined fantastical worlds inhabited by wizards, witches, magicians and ordinary boys and girls, died on Saturday in Bristol, England. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z Mr. Jasperse is one of them, and he also does a very funny turn as a hammy magician, looking delighted with tricks that patently fool no one. Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z A master magician with words, Deaver misdirects with one tale while what's really going on is just off the reader's radar. Deaver's latest is filled with twists and turns 2013-06-03T18:39:09Z It's a suitable backdrop for the anointing of a new presiding genius, a magician of cinema. Cannes 2012: live blog - the awards 2012-05-27T16:25:00Z With the rigor of a poet and the flair of a magician, Bidini, an international concert pianist, is one of the most intense teachers in classical music. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z According to one modern scholar, Newton should be viewed as both a great scientist and “the last of the magicians.” Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Legend says the lakes were formed when a magician turned a farmer’s seven daughters into seven lakes for refusing their hands in marriage. Readers' best travel discoveries of 2018: your top tips 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Death certainly hovers at the edge of the stunts Mr. Blaine performs, said Michael Nevin, the editor of the art magazine The Journal, which recently devoted an entire issue to the Brooklyn-born magician. The Gimlet Eye: At the Edge of Death, and of Fashion 2010-10-27T18:46:00Z Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” stars Colin Firth as a stage magician and Emma Stone as a young medium whose self-proclaimed powers he’s trying to debunk. Woody Allen on magic, movies, and life’s meaning 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “Everybody thinks of him as an escape artist, illusionist and magician. But there was a ton of engineering behind what he was doing,” Channell said. Arizona man finds magic moments in TV show on uncle Houdini 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z So either Trump was an amateur magician, or he wasn’t strong enough to flip a table, so he just did the tablecloth.” Late Night Reacts to Cassidy Hutchinson’s Damning Trump Testimony 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Several of the Rustico’s regulars acknowledged that the group had shrunk in recent years and that fewer young magicians attended. Sleight of Hand in Midtown, Beyond Three-Card Monte 2011-06-23T21:04:32Z Professional magicians in the ancient world claimed they could curse enemies, summon gods, heal the sick, raise ghosts, tell the future and accomplish various other miraculous feats. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z There has been, surely, a blurring in what's real and what's made up about Moore himself: that he's a recluse, that he's a magician. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z Most people have never seen a magician in person. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z SUN Sephardic foods, kids’ activities, raffle, crafts and culture displays, magician, Reptile Man, Nessim Black performance, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-08-22T15:45:44Z Mr. Bargatze has worked as a magician for more than 40 years. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Parreno regularly collaborates with experts and artists, including classical musicians, sand sculptors, virtual-reality visionaries, and masters of illusion, from mimics to magicians. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The pure joy of performance is nowhere more ecstatically revealed these days than in this evening of improvised hip-hop, made stageworthy by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail and a cadre of lightning-quick rap magicians. Perspective | Out of dozens and dozens of plays and musicals, these deserved the hottest spotlight 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The dancers move three upright mirrors in shell-game or magician fashion, closing them around a male dancer and opening them to reveal a female. Dance Review: Pilobolus Dance Theater at Joyce Theater 2012-07-17T22:04:05Z Buskers, magicians, acrobats and brightly clad actors promoting their shows crowded Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile in bright sunshine on Friday, after heavy rain the previous day. Buskers, stars and tourists crowd Edinburgh Festival 2011-08-05T16:38:42Z “I’m much more of a magician than a musician,” he told The Globe and Mail of Toronto in 1985. Malcolm McLaren, Seminal Punk Figure, Dies at 64 2010-04-08T23:26:00Z And together with Lesort, he has emerged as part of a duo of stage magicians, deploying old-fashioned tricks and visual imagination. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The country is guarded, in part, by magicians of the Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, who maintain magic throughout the kingdom. Best science fiction and fantasy for September 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Yu was recently named magician of the year, we are told, by the Academy of Magical Arts. ‘The Illusionists,’ a High-Tech Magic Extravaganza 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The show is open to singers, dancer, magicians and other performers with a top prize of $1 million. Supermodel Heidi Klum new judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent" 2013-03-04T18:00:00Z Unlike a magician, Robert Irwin doesn’t try to hide his sleight of hand. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z By his 20s, Jay was a longhaired magician performing on the road, opening for rock bands and appearing on talk shows. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “If there was anybody in my life that acts as that kind of magician, it is Olympia,” he said. ArtsBeat: Olympia Dukakis to Play Prospero for Shakespeare & Company 2012-01-11T19:45:57Z Above its image — a turbaned magician plunging knives into an encased female assistant — reads an unambiguous description: "Defies Death." The 'Boyhood' awards season campaign comes of age, delicately 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “Now I’ve retired, sort of. I’m doing a second one of Now You See Me, a picture I did about magicians,” he said. Michael Caine hints at retirement after Now You See Me 2 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z I'm thinking about the line in your book about how magic is not in the magician's hands, but in the audience mind. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Madden, “a writer, photographer, and amateur magician,” pulls a rabbit out of her hat and turns her life into art in this gorgeous reckoning. The 10 books to read in March 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z "An evening like this needs a magician," he said. Quincy Jones brings jazz prodigies to Montreux stage 2012-07-02T16:28:29Z Every stripper, crooner, magician, dancer and jazzbo who ever came to this glowing wonderland, dreaming that beautiful American dream of turning smiles into money. Perspective | Hollywood brightened Lady Gaga’s star. Las Vegas will protect her from oblivion. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z They played together, dared each other, there was an evil magician–or perhaps he was just a terrible old man–there was a lost doll … Suddenly, there’s no turning back, you’re in for the duration. Elena Ferrante May Be the Finest Author You've Never Heard Of 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Asked how long he worked on it, the magician says 14 years. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z In this way, four hours of free time in the evening can suddenly vanish like a dove in a magician’s trick cage, but the cage is Twitter scrolling and “Below Deck Mediterranean” reruns. The Complicated Business of Personal Lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z But is there any concern about opening up the clubhouse too much — revealing the magicians' secrets, as it were? RuPaul on Identity in the Trump Era: ‘Don’t Pick Battles With Your Allies’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Their indirect language distracts like a magician’s patter. Learning How to Sell From ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ 2012-11-11T04:40:29Z In “Swan Lake,” an evil magician transforms a beautiful princess into a graceful swan, an image now intimately linked to the idea of classical ballet itself. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The spunk starts early as the four house magicians introduce themselves with quick signature bits. 'Wizard Wars,' on Syfy, Lets Magicians Compete 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z What needs to be understood is that Morricone was a magician of sound. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z This is probably because I’m the kind of person always waving her hand when a magician asks for a volunteer. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z It is a gentle, melancholy tale about an old-school vaudevillian magician and entertainer who finds that modern showbusiness is leaving him behind. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z In “Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream,” Headley reimagines the Minotaur myth, as a magician and a witch plot to trap one of the lovers in a grotesque maze. Three science fiction and fantasy books we love, November edition 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Tony is similarly outraged that Gob is straight and the two plot to reveal him as gay to destroy his reputation as the Christian magician. Arrested Development recap: season four, episodes 11-15 2013-05-28T13:32:01Z He also resumed his fledgling career as a stand-up comedian and magician, appearing in nightclubs and in comedy sketches on “The Bob Hope Show” and Milton Berle’s “Texaco Star Theater.” Allen Swift, Unsung Voice Actor, Dies at 87 2010-04-28T02:28:00Z In “The Dark Knight,” with the Joker and Batman, you really have two magicians running scams. Cal Ripken’s favorite baseball movie, and 24 others on the best film about their profession 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z He’s heard from magicians who have returned to smaller, socially distanced venues in areas with low infection rates. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z In a 1983 New York Times interview, he recalled his early career in small clubs where the show consisted of “me — master of ceremonies, comedian and magician — maybe a dog act, and a stripper.” Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z "I told my father: 'Those men are magicians!' I always remembered that. It could have planted the seed of wanting to act." Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “It used to annoy me, but it’s been seen and written up by too many well-known magicians, respected magicians. Now I laugh it off.” The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z You are in no way discouraged from watching the magicians at work behind the scenes. ‘Lula del Ray,’ a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The deluge drenched the leisure-suited magician and abruptly ended the conversation. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z For example, Robert-Houdin neatly declared that “the conjurer is an actor playing the part of a magician.” Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The magicians responded to the call, in force, doing stage work and, as a lark, posing strategically for photographs that showed them pulling the Trylon out of a hat, or juggling multiple Perispheres. World’s Fair Artifacts, From ’39 and ’64, at Queens Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z All afternoon, she has been struggling to sell tickets to “Force Majeure,” the monthly variety show she produces, hosts and stars in as a magician at the Cobra Club. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z You're going up to a group of people at the table who are happily eating, and going 'I'm the magician!'. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z All the story is concentrated into act one, as the magician Drosselmeyer attempts to use the heroine, Clara, to free his nephew from the curse that's transformed him into a hideous nutcracker. Cracking the Nutcracker 2012-12-18T15:42:00Z Asked how he is, Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone answers “I am incredible” with smug glee; he considers this an utterly honest answer. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone: Strange Magic 2013-03-15T03:30:24Z In high school, I answered an ad and became a magician’s assistant. Gloria Steinem: ‘Go too far, or you’re not going far enough’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z You talk a lot in the book about that collaborative relationship that the magician has to have with the audiences. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z He will leave it up to you to decide who the greatest magician of all time was. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Two of them are superhero flicks, two are cop movies and one is about a magician. Is Christopher Nolan the new Stanley Kubrick? 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z Harry is a magician with a keen eye. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Mystery of the Moon Tower’ 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The magician and performance artist was attempting to “start the conversation” about his upcoming show, “In & Of Itself,” along with producer Glenn Kaino and director Frank Oz. More than magic and puppets: Derek DelGaudio and Frank Oz on their upcoming show 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z As he approached, his face was eager and shining, in awe of the magician. At the Houdini Museum, in Scranton, Pa., indulge in a different kind of escape 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z You are trying to be a magician and show a trick and not show what is behind the curtains. Johnny Flynn on making the crime musical "The Score," in which characters perform songs he wrote 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It's the late 1950s, and Tatischeff is a French magician of the old school — a dour soul performing sleight-of-hand in front of small crowds in moldy theaters. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z “There are terrible magicians online that do tricks as if they had just learned them in the schoolyard,” Roth told me when I asked him about people who posted magic videos on YouTube. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z For ages 3-6: A group of monkeys — including Oscar the magician and Mono the inventor — have a hair-raising train ride when a bridge goes missing and the brake lever breaks. NW books | Four books for kids ages 1-14 2013-12-09T22:20:38Z “I give the illusion of being a great piano player, but I’m actually a magician. If it’s my own playing, I do good.” Leon Russell, musician and hit songwriter, dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z I'm not a magician, but I've seen a lot of magic shows, including Nothing to Hide. Review: He’s Geekily Charming in This Magic Show, Until He Fools You 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z That film had a huge influence on , who had a new trick for horror up his magician's sleeve. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z Olympia Dukakis will play a female version of the magician Prospero in a production of “The Tempest” this summer at Shakespeare & Company, based in Lenox, Mass., the theater announced on Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Olympia Dukakis to Play Prospero for Shakespeare & Company 2012-01-11T19:45:57Z Selling newspapers on LA street corners As a carnival worker As a magician A crater on the moon was named after one of Bradbury's books by the Apollo 15 crew in 1971. Quiz: Ray Bradbury 2010-08-23T11:19:00Z “Tange treated natural light like a magician,” Mr. Kuma told the Times two years ago, reminiscing on his childhood discovery of Yoyogi National Gymnasium. The 1964 Olympics Certified a New Japan, in Steel and on the Screen 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z This was the career highlight for nightclub comic Jackie Vernon, who is best remembered today for voicing the charismatic snowman who comes to life when a magician’s top hat lands on his head. 10 Greatest Christmas TV Specials From Your Childhood 2013-12-12T10:45:46Z "I remember early on, I was given a note not to use the word magic or magicians during any interview," says Fisher. Jesse Eisenberg works his magic 2013-07-03T06:59:08Z At her 100th birthday party, he recalled, “she said, ‘Don’t bring gifts, but if any magicians want to bring magic, that would be great.’” Gloria Dea, Magician Rediscovered Late in Life, Dies at 100 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Later he does extract something from his clothing, a shimmering magician’s scarf, but it comes from the front of his trousers, after they’re unbuckled and unzipped. Review: Dismantling ‘The Glass Menagerie’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "You follow a really coherent story, but almost like a magician's trick, you may have seen a very different story than the person you came along with." In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z She needs to put together and lead a team of kids with skills very different from her own, including a magician, a code expert and a ghost. ‘Thief Knot’ author was drawn to mysteries long before she wrote them 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z You had magicians, you had jugglers, you had people doing card tricks. Talib Kweli on hip-hop, Rudy "Ghouliani" and how Kanye West can make amends for supporting Trump 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Up-and-coming magicians do their best to impress illusionists Penn & Teller in the new reality competition "Wizard Wars." TV This Week Aug. 17 - 23: 'Doctor Who' on BBC America 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z She hates magicians and magic, which adds to the drama and the poignancy. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z When returned to his senses, Mario shoots the magician to death. Shadow, and Support, of Government Follows Hungarian Opera 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z These magicians of past centuries were, to Ricky, at least as real and present as his friends, and much more so than anyone outside our number. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “I’m also a magician, and I have a belief in the magician’s ethos,” he said. In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The drum circle is the throbbing heart of downtown, a district of shops, bars, buskers and street magicians that spring into action as the weekend begins. 36 Hours in Asheville, N.C. 2010-10-22T05:00:00Z “He claims to be a goldsmith, a jeweler and a metalworker, but I think, before everything, there’s a sort of magician within him.” Daniel Brush, Boundary-Defying Artist, Is Dead at 75 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z So there’s a holiday party and a girl named Clara who battles mice with the help of a nutcracker brought to life by her magician godfather. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Like a madcap professor or ebullient magician, he bounds around explaining how he solved a math problem, then gleefully calls for confetti, which rains down upon the wildly applauding theater-goers. Tonys 2015: 'Curious Incident of the Dog' brings 'autistic perspective to life' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The tone was more casual, the liquor just as upscale at “Magic After Hours,” created by the young Brooklyn magician Noah Levine. Fool Me Twice? Yes, Please 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Even his name, borrowed from the magisterial French magician, Robert Houdin, was a masterstroke. Harry Houdini: the sum of all amazements 2011-03-24T12:45:22Z Part clown, part acrobat and part magician — after a sneezing fit, she crumples tissues, which miraculously disappear — Ms. Anglada moves to choreography that evokes child’s play. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z “The only way in which a magician can pull a rabbit out of a hat is if the rabbit is in the hat to begin with,” Scolari says. The evolution of Tom Hanks Like Ted Mack's "The Original Amateur Hour," a show Mandel recalls attending as a child, he appreciates that "America's Got Talent" throws "a wide net, whether dancer, singer, magician." Mandel searches for Tiny Tim redux on talent show 2010-06-15T12:11:00Z In Teevan's version, Faustus becomes a celebrity magician trapped in a form of performance hell. Faustus doctored as Marlowe gets a monster-inspired makeover 2013-02-28T12:47:03Z The first person to adapt Cinderella for the big screen was the French magician turned film director Georges Méliès. How Cinderella lost its original feminist edge in the hands of men 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z "The Immigrant" seeks to puncture the myth of the American dream: It's promoted in the film by a magician, played Jeremy Renner. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z It's that earnestness, coupled with a truly chameleon-like gift to climb into the skin of a character, that make her plea to keep sealed the magician's cloth seem more naive than pretentious. Rooney Mara: 'I've been guarded since I was three years old' 2013-03-02T06:00:00Z Ardent young men are always available for a pretty girl; but magicians, we are told, do not exist. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z In the late Victorian era, though, unscrupulous entrepreneurs frequently defrauded Indian “jugglers” — a term that included magicians — who had been lured west to amaze crowds at various international expositions. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The crux of their conflict is that Hnath, an artist from the world of theater not magic, appears unimpressed with how many of the tricks derive from previous magicians. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z In the past months, I’d had a couple of colleagues and a couple of rival magicians tell me that Wind was the best card magician they had ever seen. ‘Asi Wind’s Inner Circle’ Review: Pick a Card, Not Just Any Card 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Over many fun, boozy hours, we met a terrific magician from Spain, known as Magic Malka, and a waitress at Three Brothers Burgers, Antonia May Cross, who also runs sex-education talks. Places 22 and 23 of 52: Cheeky Surprises in Bristol, and a ‘Wee Look Around’ Glasgow 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z SAT The Enchanted World of Faeries & Goblins themed renaissance fair, dress up in whimsical attire, jousting, fencing, dancing, games, music, magicians, puppet shows and more, 10 a.m.-7p.m. 1,000 Lights Water Lantern Festival, In the Spirit Northwest Native Festival and Seattle Arab Festival 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The next year, Mr. Jourdan starred on Broadway as a magician in “Tonight in Samarkand,” a short-lived drama set in a traveling circus in France. Louis Jourdan, who epitomized Gallic charm in Hollywood movies, dies at 93 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z He said entertainers have a responsibility to not endanger their audience’s health, but that most magicians have used virtual shows just to stay afloat and are eager to return to live performances. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Before he alighted on a career in comedy, Woody Allen aspired to be a magician, spending hours every day practising sleight-of-hand tricks with billiard balls, coins, cards and rings. Magic in the Moonlight: Woody Allen's film is as airy as they come – first look review 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Instead “he was the last of the magicians”. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z You performed as a magician when you were young but ended up pursuing a Ph.D. in geophysics at Cambridge. Nick Mohammed Has Been Faking It on ‘Ted Lasso’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. Books of The Times: ?Charles Dickens,? by Claire Tomalin; ?Becoming Dickens? - 2011-10-24T22:30:07Z In reality, Méliès, a former conjurer and magician, did the same: he was rediscovered working in a Montparnasse toyshop, and his films were restored as iconic treasures of silent cinema. Brian Selznick: how Scorsese's Hugo drew inspiration from his magical book 2012-02-11T19:26:44Z As the magician Prospero, Harriet Walter will break her staff and drown her book for the last time on Feb. 19. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Even the most vociferously anti-spiritualist magicians encouraged with one hand what they squashed with the other. The real (and more interesting) story behind Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Whatever the truth about what happened the night Mr. Meade visited Mr. DelGaudio’s show, word that other magicians may have surreptitiously filmed him drew a strong response from some fellow performers. Hat. Rabbit. Spy Cam? Claims of Skulduggery at a Hot Magic Show 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z He and a student become entangled with a group of magicians hired to steal a talismanic briefcase and along the way discover that Fillory itself is dying. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy Like a bad magician at a roadside carnival, Lionsgate decided to saw the last two movies in half. The fall of “Divergent”: The final film will bow on TV — here’s why it matters 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z She hated the job but mined the experience in her books, almost never portraying a magician in a positive light. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Under Kelly O’Donnell’s direction, he introduces each adjustment in protocol with the flourish of a magician. ‘3 Christs,’ About Milton Rokeach’s 1959 Study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z His Lyonesse trilogy is set during the Middle Ages in the Elder Isles, a fictional archipelago where daily life is animated by political rivalries and the spells of witches and magicians. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z “It’s kind of like being a magician,” he said. Arts & Leisure: Building Suspense With Ti West and ?The Innkeepers? 2012-01-20T16:14:33Z Heathcote Williams, a poet, playwright, actor, lyricist, painter, sculptor, magician and relentless scourge of the British establishment for half a century, died on Saturday in Oxford. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “The idea was to start a store where magicians could actually see a demo of every trick in the shop,” Acar Altinsel, a co-founder of Penguin, wrote me in an email. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z If they’re successful, the magician gets a chance to perform in Penn & Teller’s Las Vegas show. TV highlights: ‘Sharknado 2: The Second One’ premieres on Syfy A hub for some of the country’s most beloved performers that blurs the lines between superstar D.J.s, cheeky magicians and bona fide vocal heroes. U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The better comparison would be with old-fashioned magicians, who make no more claim to bogus supernatural powers than Brown does, but never seriously suggest that they aren't using tricks. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z Before there was a script — or a commitment to fully produce the show — Ms. Landau held workshops, pairing traditional actors with clowns, acrobats, dancers and magicians. With a Singing SpongeBob, Nickelodeon Aims for a Broadway Splash 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The show also features a raft of magicians and dancers, with the week of events bringing markets, puppet shows, mermaids and giant insects to Margate's public spaces. This week's new events 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z Towering over it all is Hogwarts, a perfect reproduction of the imposing, many-spired castle where Harry and his magician friends are students. Orlando Harry Potter park: Quidditch, butterbeer 2010-06-11T15:16:00Z Unfortunately, most magicians don’t have the resources to invest in large-scale shows. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Daniel, who takes Elisabeth to see “The Tempest,” is something of a Prospero to her Miranda, a fatherly magician summoning the wealth of words and images that will shape her life. Review | Ali Smith begins a new quartet of novels with ‘Autumn’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Brooks’s departure wasn’t a slow fade into irrelevance, but a magician’s disappearance while standing in a spotlight. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Fans still gather at the grave of the magician, awaiting his escape from death. 9 Little Known Places to Visit in New York City (That Aren’t Tourist Traps) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Today, and for the run of “Inner Circle,” Wind has a theater of his own, a bespoke and painstakingly fabricated 106-seater that is based on a venue for magicians in Munich. ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind and His Sublime Card Tricks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z In quick succession, she began whisking them away, like a magician pulling a tablecloth out from under a full place setting. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z It began with a glance back to the glory days of magic shops in postwar London, when magicians would demonstrate tricks to customers, sometimes 100 times a day. Radio review: Magic People and Places 2010-07-30T06:59:00Z A magician on the third season semi-finals of "Vietnam's Got Talent" in 2015 mistakenly gulped acid and was sent to the hospital instead of the finale. A look back at other 'Got Talent' accidents 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z There’s a magic show in which the magicians are not necessarily all that magical, and Josie thinks more about the performers than the performance. This Week in Fiction: Dave Eggers 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The two-story house was a gathering place for Colombian magicians and for quiet, awkward kids like myself. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z A magician whose fans are very familiar with the idea of a young wizard with a difficult childhood, whose discovery of his magic powers changed his life. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z Consisting of passages from a 55-minute film about her mother and her family called “Mommy,” one focuses on Ms. Lee’s father, a professional magician, and another on her older sister. ‘Mirror Cells’ Asks: What Lights Up the Brain? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z For Mr. Wilson is a magician at whipping up exquisite dreamscapes, fluid yet fragmented visions that seem to have stepped out of the darkness of your sleeping mind. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z Known as the magician who could free himself from straitjackets and handcuffs, Houdini was born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, the son of a rabbi. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z “He said he was using a different method, but that makes no difference to the public,” Teller said of the other magician. Hat. Rabbit. Spy Cam? Claims of Skulduggery at a Hot Magic Show 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z It was, said one contemporary, like watching "a magician, performing his incantations in public". A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z In an early issue of The Equinox, Crowley argues that an aspiring magician should “train himself to think backwards by external means.” What exactly lurks within the backward grooves of “Stairway to Heaven?” 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z "The most gratifying thing I've heard when people see Now You See Me is that kids are going to want to be magicians again," he says. Jesse Eisenberg works his magic 2013-07-03T06:59:08Z As for fantasy: "Harry Potter is a boy detective and Sherlock Holmes is, essentially, a magician." Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z Bigger shows, with magicians performing tricks on a faraway stage, seem to be both more difficult for the magicians and somehow less impressive for the audience. This Week in Fiction: Dave Eggers 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z In 1993, on his fortieth birthday, he declared himself a ceremonial magician; the core of his belief, which he speaks of with striking cogency, is that art is indistinguishable from magic. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In that series, which is more humorous than overtly promotional, Wigglesworth posed as a casting director who promised to find a bankable star to play the opera’s magician. Their Next Big Thing Is Actually Small 2013-09-04T19:03:00Z The women of the title are a magician and a librarian. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z White gloves have an inherent theatricality, as any old-school magician can attest. For Rare Book Librarians, It’s Gloves Off. Seriously. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z And when I accomplish all of this, I really do feel like a magician. Making a Marriage Magically Tidy 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z When he became a magician, Houdini started to call himself Harry Houdini after the French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. Budapest museum lifts lid on Houdini's magic, Hungarian roots 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z We learn this early on, yet the details unspool in a way that is hypnotic and deeply affecting; McBride is like a magician who reveals the mechanics of the trick yet still manages to amaze. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Starring James Franco as a small-time magician who becomes the leader of the magical land, "Oz" brought its global total to $356.4 million through Sunday. Cave-dwelling "Croods" settle at top of U.S. movie box office 2013-03-24T22:33:44Z Then, with one swift movement, she laid the tortilla on the hot griddle, sweeping her hand out of the way like a magician at the culmination of a trick. How to make the single most important element of a taco, at home 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Other subjects included street magicians, griots and the radical group Move’s standoff with authorities in Philadelphia. Black Panther, Luke Cage and the First Black Artist to Draw Both 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Even a second-rate magician would better serve these kids than what they're forced to sit through now: a shell game, at knifepoint. "Prince of Persia" royally blows it 2010-05-28T00:20:00Z When in conversation about making music, Itzhak Perlman is a cross between a laid-back pedagogue, a magician reluctantly giving away secrets and a world-class chef taking you on a brief tour of his kitchen. Virtuoso on the go: Itzhak Perlman to visit Seattle Feb. 19 2013-02-13T22:05:11Z But Steve Cohen, the program’s genial host, is an adherent to the magicians’ code; don’t expect to learn how to make a rope rise skyward out of a basket here. Television Review: ‘Lost Magic Decoded,’ With Steve Cohen 2012-10-17T21:55:03Z Recently, Hanna was one of about 10 residents on hand for magician Kevin Spencer's visit to the Children's Center at Sabal Palms. Magician conjures up therapeutic tricks for disabled kids 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z He was a German artist, magician and calligrapher born without hands or lower legs and measuring just 29 inches tall. A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z It is single-minded and precise, a coming-of-age story complete with castle, magician and king. Rumpelstiltskin Redux 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “I was part of a double act with a magician.” How we met: ‘When my wife was dying, she told me to look up my old friend DeeDee’ 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Sometimes he is a stranger, like the seductive magician who takes up residence at a seedy motel, or the eerily beautiful and serene young woman who finds work in the logging camp. Eerie visitor, string of murders haunt B.C. logging town 2014-02-19T20:14:55Z Ricky Jay is the first magician to be given the "American Masters" treatment, a press release would like you to know. TV Picks: Ricky Jay, Tom Edison, 'Justified,' 'Masterchef Junior' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z He wanted to know what Nash — an amiable police inspector and amateur magician who patrolled San Francisco in an early ’70s bright yellow Plymouth Barracuda — would be like 20 years down the road. Don Johnson Is Back as ‘Nash Bridges.’ Why? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Among those occupying a certain bandwidth of the population, Dr. Brandt is the designated magician responsible for keeping faces both well known and otherwise in states of extraordinary preservation. Dr. Fredric Brandt: Cosmetic Dermatologist to the Rich and Famous 2014-03-28T20:25:48Z The biggest impact, however, was delivered by magicians Penn & Teller On Broadway, as they conjured almost $1 million in their first week on the boards. Broadway Box Office 7/13: Penn & Teller Pull Box Office Gold Out Of A Hat 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z In an interview with Vulture, the magician said that Trump, then a real estate mogul, "would say racially insensitive things that made me uncomfortable." Penn Jillette on Trump during “Celebrity Apprentice”: “He would say racially insensitive th... 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Jared Loftin is cuddly-adorable and poignant as Gary, an insecure, overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician but is having trouble even being allowed to enter the school’s talent show. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Gary Goldfarb, Master Escapist’ 2013-07-22T21:15:19Z “I think he really was a magician; he transformed us into artists,” Mr. Pendleton said. Alwin Nikolais’s Influence on Dance Is Resurrected 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Morey fell in love with the art of illusion as a 5-year-old in Bucks County, Pa., after seeing a magician on TV make a dollar bill appear inside a lemon. These Washington power players transform themselves into magicians one night a month 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Prior to Phoenix getting the offer, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch were all linked with the part of “the mightiest magician in the cosmos”. Joaquin Phoenix estranged from Marvel's Doctor Strange 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z When a street magician dropped his cards while performing to us. Blind date: ‘I wanted to be consumed by Satan’s lustful flames’ 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z She added: “I knew that he was a magician. I really felt that when Gorky painted, he was in another world. And I wanted to follow him there.” Art That Was Hiding in Plain Sight 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Klima's father was a stage magician and his mother a school psychologist. He cleaned crime scenes, then wrote a book 2010-06-18T22:55:00Z “The greatest magician of all time. He could make things vanish.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Personal Is the Clinical 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Fantasma and Tannen’s are lingering throwbacks where young magicians can still learn secrets directly from their elders, sidestepping DVDs and videos from online sites. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z “The pope is not a magician, and this is why the pope will never be a politician!” We’re coming for Fox News: “America is a very dangerous land for women, because it has such a party as the Republican Party” 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Renwick has also never borrowed one of his nutty ideas from anyone else – magician Ali Bongo did work as a consultant on early shows, but only to advise on technical details. Jonathan Creek returns – but what is the detective's appeal? 2013-03-27T15:42:41Z But now, Seagal looks like a disgraced Vegas magician, swaddled in a big coat and sporting an unfortunate goatee, drowsy line readings and the combat prowess of a walrus. Steven Seagal's 'Absolution': unforgivably bad 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z They featured magic boxes, invisible green monsters who manifested from the ears down, a satisfyingly-robed magician and mouse families in need of rescue, even from the beginning of the blue first series. What are the best learn-to-read books? 2010-09-30T08:42:00Z The novel isn’t nearly so headache-inducing as that suggests, but Mitchell is something of a magician, with fluid moments of mental manipulation. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The Tempest Independent Shakespeare Co. stages the Bard’s fantasy tale about a magician and others on a mystical isle as part of the annual Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z It’s a long way from the stale, hocus-pocus image of birthday party magicians from the past. Broadway conjures magic with ‘The Illusionists’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The magician Penn Jillette was one of the first to respond, and did so in a series of tweets expressing gratitude for his time with Mr. Lewis. ‘At a Dark Time in My Life, He Brought Me Joy’: Comedians Mourn and Celebrate Jerry Lewis 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z A nameless North African magician, not a vizier named Jafar, apparently chooses him at random to retrieve the magic lamp. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z “There are certain people like that in Vegas – magicians, hypnotists, singers – and you think, are these people famous anywhere else? But he obviously wasn’t a normal magician.” Stabbed tongues and swallowed eyeballs: was the Amazing Johnathan's terminal diagnosis his greatest trick? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Then we learned that Blade had become this magician later in life, in “Track Girl Magic,” in Season 3. Robin Thede Is on a Mission 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z At our boys’ second birthday party, the magician asked me to volunteer as his assistant. Motherlode Blog: Raising Twins Where They May Never 'Belong' 2012-04-16T01:31:29Z The magician Richard Turner is dedicated to wowing audiences with sleight of hand. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ and ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Outside of magician school, it is impossible to make magic under the imposition of structure. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z A character in Mr. Cohen’s 1963 novel “The Favorite Game” said, “I want to touch people like a magician, to change them or hurt them, leave my brand, make them beautiful.” Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Derek was a magician and I thought I’d convince him by saying a mini pig would be perfect for his act. Experience: I accidentally bought a giant pig 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Some shepherds saw a vision that led them to you, and some magicians from the East brought you gifts. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z It was still the same elements in terms of, “Oh, here’s the new guy,” but instead of, like, a weird magician, he’s now a … cowboy? Mike Faist Isn’t Sure About This Whole Acting Thing 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Edinburgh's streets are awash with visitors, buskers, magicians, clowns, impromptu theatricals, jugglers and other entertainers in a clamorous kaleidoscope of colors, sounds and people in outrageous costumes touting for audiences. Frenzied Edinburgh Festival Fringe grows again for 2013 2013-05-30T15:58:22Z In Jay’s telling, about the only redeeming aspect of his childhood was having an amateur magician for a grandfather, who taught him the fundamentals and personally introduced him to assorted masters of conjuring. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z As most magicians will tell you, Roth is a legend within the guild. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Freely mixing genders and pigments, the young artist distinguishes herself early as a magician with paints — and she knows it. Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith He announced that he was a magician and was going “to make Des disappear.” The Bachelorette Watch: Desiree Enters The Thunderdome Of Love (and Hashtags) 2013-05-28T09:45:39Z Because he is among the most formidable magicians and comedians the UK has ever produced. How I lost my festival virginity to Howard 2010-08-21T23:09:00Z Strange’s magic is wild and Celtic, drawing on ancient myths–in particular, the history of The Raven King, an ancient magician who harnessed the powers of nature and an extraworldly faerie kingdom. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The summer season will only bring three new shows to the Great White Way: new musical Amazing Grace, magicians Penn and Teller, and the transfer of Off-Broadway smash Hamilton. Broadway Box Office 6/15: 'Fun Home' And 'An American In Paris' Have Best Week Ever 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Like a true movie magician, he made his career struggles disappear. The Sixth Sense at 20: the smash hit that remains impossible to define 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert 2014-02-10T18:47:42Z I play a magician on the back of playing GOB on Arrested Development. From a talking horse to the Dark Knight: Will Arnett ranks his own roles 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z I immediately put it back, sensing that I had seen something illicit, like a child who discovers the secret to a magician’s trick. Mirror Images in the D.J. Booth 2011-01-05T23:22:41Z I’m poised to reach for a piece when my steward, with the flourish of a magician, extends the box sideways, unveiling more treats on two swinging shelves. Pineapple and Pearls review: Dining so fine, we’re seeing 4 stars from the start 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Ladies, if I can impart one piece of dating advice it is this: Don’t date a magician. The Bachelorette Watch: Desiree Enters The Thunderdome Of Love (and Hashtags) 2013-05-28T09:45:39Z One of the opening lines in my shows is, I ask for a show of hands of who's ever seen a magician before. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z A woman is mistakenly admitted into an asylum when her car breaks down in Spain’s Monegros desert and her husband, a struggling cabaret magician, abandons her there in retribution for imagined infidelity. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “I was hoping for ‘minimalist’ but I think I came out with ‘magician’.” Doctor Who recap: series 34, episode five - Time Heist 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Paquette will explain how reading helped him become a magician, and he will introduce children to some tricks and interesting books at the end of the hourlong show. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 5-11 2012-10-04T22:49:01Z Charles Benedict is a criminal defense lawyer, amateur magician and cold-blooded killer. Book Review: `Sleight of Hand' will shock, mislead 2013-04-09T14:32:09Z I have refused for years to be overly impressed by magicians. Rewind TV: Babies in the Office; Wallander; David Tennant on Hamlet 2012-07-21T23:05:43Z But it’s possible to care too much for order, cool and elegance, to overpraise the magician’s sleight of hand and miss the trick itself. Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The recovered film shows a magician who divides into two. Researchers find film by early cinema pioneer thought to be lost forever 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z When Lee and her sister were very young, their father left the family to pursue dreams of becoming a stage magician. Listening to George Michael in Taiwan 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z In his debut novel, the historical mystery-thriller “Carter Beats the Devil,” Glen David Gold created a fictional biography of the real-life 1920s American stage magician Charles Joseph Carter. A Novelist’s Encyclopedic Memoir Hints at His Complicated Childhood 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Yes, he explains, the 1902 “Expert at the Card Table,” credited to the pseudonymous S. W. Erdnase, is regarded as a kind of magician’s holy book. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z When the spectator looks up after reading the card, the magician is wearing a clown nose. Sleight of Hand in Midtown, Beyond Three-Card Monte 2011-06-23T21:04:32Z He was a magician’s magician, a sleight-of-hand grand master and, as he liked to say, “a student of deception and occasional practitioner.” The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z As the novel opens, Pinhead is approaching the end of a monumental — and genocidal — mission: destroying all living human magicians, usurping their powers and absorbing their arcane knowledge. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Go into the past and you'll find many big celebrity books that made oodles of cash vanish like a seaside magician fiddling with a publisher's gold watch. Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z A film or TV show is like a magic act, he continues, “and magicians don’t tell how they did a thing”. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z He honed his craft by apprenticing with famed magician Jeff McBride, who suggested that he start a monthly show in Washington. These Washington power players transform themselves into magicians one night a month 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s misdirection, of course, the art of keeping our minds off whatever a magician doesn’t want us to notice. Review: A World of Cardsharps and Zoom Dupes in ‘The Future’ 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z And the acrobatic acts, which drive the production more than the story of a magician, still inspire awe. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z The cool street magician David Blaine who everyone liked, that is, not the weirdo David Blaine who spent a month in a box being pelted with sausages that time. TV magic shows: now you see them, now you don't 2012-07-05T11:19:34Z “She loved being surrounded by new magicians, young magicians,” he added. Gloria Dea, Magician Rediscovered Late in Life, Dies at 100 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Working Vegas like some elephantless variety act is no longer enough for ambitious magicians; they aspire to the condition of drama. Review: A World of Cardsharps and Zoom Dupes in ‘The Future’ 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z From there, Bowie contributed performances to dozens of films, but my favourite is his work on Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, a tale of warring stage magicians. Bowie the film star: imaginative, daring and endlessly charismatic 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The magician uses Dream's tools to become wildly wealthy and influential as the rest of the world suffers. Enter "Sandman," right on time 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z In a reversal of these new norms, Northamptonshire magician Alan Moore is to perform a one-man dance piece about the rise and fall of Menswe@r. Stewart Lee: If Damon Albarn is serious about the occult, shouldn't we call him Damien? 2011-07-09T23:06:00Z I held a private party in my home recently and a friend, who happens to be a magician, volunteered to entertain the group during the party. Perspective | Ask Amy: Grandparents heap ‘stuff’ onto the grandkids 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Visitors enter the performance space before the show to find a massive bar and are greeted by magicians. Cirque du Soleil plans a new and hybrid Las Vegas show 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Returning to the task at hand, Mr. Pierce gingerly lifted a schnitzel by the edges like a magician holding a handkerchief. Shangela Cooks Wiener Schnitzel While ‘Quaranqueening’ 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z In the strong final installment of a trilogy, an exiled magician attempts a risky heist. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z They could hear me but they wanted to see Tom, same as you'd watch any magician. 'Prairie Home' sound effects man Keith dies at 64 2011-11-01T02:01:04Z As the magician Penn Teller puts it in the piece, Robbins “takes a low crime and turns it into an art form.” The Top Twenty-Five Most-Read Archive Stories of 2019 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Pushkin, he tells the translator in Russian, was a magician and a father figure. Baryshnikov Packs Up His Memories in Boxes 2011-10-05T21:45:13Z “It’s as if a magician had revealed all of his tricks.” Carlo Rambaldi, Movie Maestro of Special Effects, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:01:55Z Many magicians imply that they are performing miracles and dare onlookers to divine their methods. ‘He Must Have Superpowers’: Asi Wind and His Sublime Card Tricks 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z But few besides magicians will be much impressed. Capsule reviews: 'The Social Network,' 'Let Me In' 2010-09-30T22:39:00Z In this case, it's two current-day teenage siblings — Carter Kane and younger sister Sadie — w ho learn their true heritage as powerful Egyptian magicians in the first book of the series, "The Red Pyramid." Talking with 'The Serpent's Shadow' author Rick Riordan 2012-05-04T03:30:25Z Never trust magicians is what I’m trying to say. The six best MTV Cribs pads of all time – from Mariah's Mermaid room to Criss Angel's giant train set 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Her book is, above all, a tribute to these magicians, a plea for more wizards in the classroom. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Most of the ballet's original framing story concerning the magician Drosselmeyer's quest to free his nephew from the Nutcracker curse is edited out. The Nutcracker ? review 2010-12-12T21:29:00Z It is in this state of abject need that Shadow the amateur magician meets Wednesday, a charismatic con man — could it be? “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z “But as soon as I saw the finished pilot script that Tina and Robert wrote, I realised, of course, these magicians handled it perfectly.” ‘Oh my gosh, I love that question!’: Why Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Ellie Kemper is TV’s happiest star 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z When I visit the studio, she is at work on two paintings: a portrait of two magicians and an abstract oceanic scene steeped in violet. In the Studio With an Artist Who Paints in a ‘Color Trance’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z What distinguishes the good magician from the great is the rigor of execution and quality of artistry. Theater Review: Vinny DePonto in ‘Charlatan,’ a Magic Show at Ars Nova 2014-04-01T21:42:39Z Like Mr. Rich, she found her way to the alive-and-well Ms. Dea, and word began to spread in the magicians’ community about that history-making centenarian. Gloria Dea, Magician Rediscovered Late in Life, Dies at 100 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The magician makes a magic show out of explaining his tricks. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z When it comes to Greek and Roman fiction, however, most magicians are women. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z I’m sure the greater D.C. area does not lack for magicians and fire dancers. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It really, really broke my heart, and I hated magicians tremendously. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z He’s delighted by comedy rooted in language, and like a magician distracting you with banter, he favors complex premises that are actually elaborate contraptions meant to trigger the punch line. These Stand-Ups Are in an Escapist Mood, Much Like Their Audience 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Elkins tells this story with the ease of a magician. Doug Elkins Presents ‘Hapless Bizarre’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Finally, Mario, a waiter from a cafe who is suffering from lovesickness, is entranced into thinking the magician is the woman he pines for. Shadow, and Support, of Government Follows Hungarian Opera 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Set in the late 1950s, the story opens on an unnamed French magician who is struggling to keep audiences interested in his old-fashioned sleights of hand. | 'The Illusionist': Conjuring a Magical Relationship 2010-12-23T22:41:33Z There’s one magician who waves around a glass of water and takes out a knife and cuts through the glass and it’s revealed to be a chocolate cake. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z That too is part of this magician’s bag of tricks. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z At times they look like superheroes, moving together to the rhythm of the music, conjuring tricks like magicians. Fragile, Delicate, Free: Glimpses of Circus Life, at Sea 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z “I’m a magician,” she murmurs as if on cue. Dita Von Teese, From Burlesque to a Brand 2012-11-24T00:05:20Z Supported by Peregrine Eliot, the 10th Earl of St. Germans, a computer artist and a fellow magician, he turned out paintings and sculptures at a terrific rate. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z They are sanctuaries where awkward 10-, 14- and 20-year-olds can meet and talk to each other and to older magicians without fearing ridicule or censorship. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z "I believe that part of it was that the style of the shows was still that cliched magician," he says. Saturday interview: Dynamo, the magician who walks on water 2012-07-06T23:05:33Z He worried that after 17 years he’d have to join the ranks of magicians who take day jobs to pay the bills. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The twists and turns of the story are dazzling, and the film sometimes feels like an intricately jewelled and mirrored prop that might be used by a stage magician of a distant age. The 50 best US films of 2016: No 9 – The Handmaiden 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Seattle's four-week Moisture Festival, now in its ninth year, opened Thursday with a zany, feisty lineup of comedians, jugglers, magicians, singers and aerialists, plus an act or two impossible to classify. Seattle's Moisture Festival wards off that soggy feeling 2012-03-16T16:55:07Z Skilled magicians can do the same, by developing a carefully controlled coin toss. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In his book, he explores his own lifelong fascination with it, as well as the eternal dynamic between magician and audience. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “As a magician the best thing is the element of surprise,” Lovering said. Pixies Look for Revival in New Songs, Tour 2013-10-07T15:42:27Z The magician repeated something about uncle or friend. Motherlode Blog: Raising Twins Where They May Never 'Belong' 2012-04-16T01:31:29Z Her twin sister Kimberly is preternaturally calm, a magician at calming children, with plans to be a teacher. ‘You buy a lot of flowers and tampons': things you only know when you have seven daughters 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z MON Interactive entertainment, magician, costume contests, special menu, 5 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-26T23:24:10Z Yet it is he, a pinch-faced, powder-wigged 19th century gentleman scholar from Yorkshire, who revives the practice of magic, gives the crown victory over Napoleon and becomes the chief, and only, magician in Britain. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Most Insightful Hosting: When a still-feisty Sean came to talk to Brooke, she reminded him of his career arc: “Let’s be real: You went from being an insurance agent to being a dancing magician.” Dancing with the Stars Watch: It’s Threesome Night! 2013-05-07T09:45:25Z The best magicians are a little like the best priests, or novelists. When Harry Met Harry 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Wandering among the menagerie of caged animals and strutting peacocks, he spotted a fellow magician in a white leisure suit with gold trim. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Greaves is a magician; he pulls a rabbit out of a hat, but, being a real magician rather than a fake one, he doesn’t plant the rabbit there but finds it there by chance. The Daring, Original, and Overlooked “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Though he comes to Mr. Norrell as an apprentice, their relationship turns competitive, as much two versions of England as they are two sorts of magicians. 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' conjures literate magic world 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z I enjoyed the overture being used to show us the magician Drosselmeyer at work on his four dolls. Review: E Pluribus ‘Nutcracker,’ as a British Critic Signs Off 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” drew a young magician from Prague. Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Leonard the magician sawed her down the middle, then put the two parts of her back together — the carnal and the spiritual — and made her more perfect than before. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z They, of course, are mostly trained as actors, not magicians. Bringing Broadway Spectacle Back to Life 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z But like the beautiful assistant who climbs into a magician’s box in order to be sawed in half, the dancers disappeared, only to pop up around another geometric configuration. Machines Of Movement, With Bruises 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z When I was 6 or 7 years old I knew I wanted to be a great magician. This magician and mentalist explains how anything you think can become a reality 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Copperfield said King inspired people to dream, and the magician's "art is about making people dream." David Copperfield buys, donates 1960 MLK recording 2012-09-05T21:36:13Z As if I were a magician, she listened to me tell her about herself: what she was like, what she needed, what she needed to correct. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z As usual, he told me nothing about the mechanics of magic — magicians code — and simply reached over to cover my hand with his. My first marriage was an illusion. My second, real magic 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Throughout this period, magicians would rely on dexterity of hand and misdirection, but also on the latest science and technology. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z That same evening, the makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury and a team of magicians will be at Bloomingdale’s 59th Street at 6 p.m. to celebrate the introduction of her collection at the uptown retailer. Vineyard Vines, Now at Grand Central. Consider a Pit Stop. 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z In this show, he said, DelGaudio confronts his own frustration at being labeled a magician. More than magic and puppets: Derek DelGaudio and Frank Oz on their upcoming show 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z How is a cook announcing dinner like a magician announcing he actually cut the lady in half? Style Invitational Week 1467: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Closer to Jay’s heart was the magician Max Malini of the early 20th century. A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Within the current nerve center of hip-hop — especially here in Georgia — he is known, somewhat mythically, as a “witch doctor,” a “magician,” a “god in the streets.” Atlanta’s #BillionDollarLawyer Is Looking Out for Your Favorite Rappers 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z From "Fearless" to "reputation," "folklore" to "Midnights," Swift is a magician when it comes to changing shape. Sleep deprivation and Taylor Swift: what the demands of modern fandom say about us 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z His first career was as a magician, a profession that had captivated him since childhood. Kids' books: Remembering Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman 2010-04-02T11:24:00Z He is told that too much nervous patter from a magician is just “linguistic lint”; he is also advised to find a mentor. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z Choices picked out of a hat: It’s a gambit of magicians and improv comedians, a way of showing an audience that chance is at work and performers are creating on the fly. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z I've never been one for knowing how the magician does the trick; I just want to be wowed. The devil is in Blu-ray's detail 2010-08-31T08:15:00Z It’s a shame we don’t hear more about the less fancy magicians. ‘The Automat’ Review: Put a Nickel in the Slot for Nostalgia 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z SHE looked like money, the woman with the sleek long legs, tanned a light toast color, and with a mane highlighted by honeyed streaks conjured by some magician at Frédéric Fekkai. Portals to Power 2011-06-17T19:58:06Z Mr. Wahler’s swan song will be a magician’s performance by Christian Jankowski, closing out a curatorial line inspired by Christopher Priest’s “The Prestige.” Scene/Seen: Paris Regains Some of Its Lost Aura in Art World 2011-10-28T13:30:24Z The "Annie Hall" director, now 78, said the fraudulent spiritualists exposed by Houdini and other magicians "led me to the idea." Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Bale portrays a creative genius whose stage skills leave something to be desired, while Jackman is a magician who makes up for his shortcomings with razzle-dazzle. A retrospective of 'Inception' director Christopher Nolan's work 2010-07-28T22:28:00Z He comes afoul of a magician who, determined to lead Orlando back to a life of valor, entices him into an enchanted forest where romantic involvements drive Orlando mad. Classical Playlist: Handel, George Benjamin, David Lang and Others 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z SAT Dinner and mayhem to unveil who killed the magician, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But Gross was not always a world-traveling comedian, magician and “skilled ventriloquist.” Magician/comedian behind viral ‘split man’ video comes to Seattle 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z There is a literal veil — a big piece of silk tossed like a parachute or the handkerchief of a giant magician. Review: Christopher Wheeldon Creates a Memorable Realm 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Another lampoons a creepy, talentless magician who is hired to perform at an 8-year-old’s birthday party and emerges from the bedroom looking like “a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard.” Katherine Heiny’s Road to ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow’ 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z It is now defined as magician and assistant. Books of The Times: Young Russians in Brooklyn Find Love, the Wonder Wheel and Then Life 2011-05-30T19:56:24Z Derek DelGaudio, the creator and star of the stealthily entrancing solo show “In & Of Itself,” is a magician, a raconteur, a Conceptual artist and conceivably a mind reader. Review: Derek DelGaudio Sets Himself Apart From the Abracadabra Crowd 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z One show even featured a magician sawing his wife in half — in the middle of a deserted street. Out-of-work Las Vegas showgirls take act online, showcase Sin City performers amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z Harry Houdini, the arch sceptic and magician's magician, often complained that what seemed wonderful to most people was every day and commonplace to him, describing his professional life as a "constant record of disillusion". Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z But then the magician made a mysterious gesture and challenged the man to lift up the box again. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It played magician to a small group in a hotel meeting room, changing a long and weary day into a memorable evening. On the power of a shared glass 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This Saturday’s 3 p.m. show is a benefit for Save the Children; it will include a party at 2 p.m. with the magician the Amazing Max. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 9-15 2011-12-08T23:17:55Z A young cat gets dumped by his owners and makes its way to an eerie Victorian mansion where Lawrence, a retired magician, lives with a collection of pets and mechanical toys. 'Thunder and the House of Magic' full of worn-out tricks 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Pixies drummer David Lovering, who is also a magician, likens the excitement that resulted to his magic act. Pixies Look for Revival in New Songs, Tour 2013-10-07T15:42:27Z Penn and Teller, who turn up on TV so often that you might think they live inside your set, are among the judges as four on-the-rise magicians compete against four more established ones. 'Wizard Wars,' on Syfy, Lets Magicians Compete 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Advising against obvious dexterity, Erdnase recommends that a card magician “conceal, as far as possible, the possession of digital ability.” Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Alone among Britain's bestselling authors he describes himself as a practising magician. Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood 2012-12-15T19:08:25Z Hinderaker’s upcoming projects include a commission for the Roundabout and Chicago’s Goodman Theater about a magician, structured like a magic show — “Impossible,” he says, comparing it to the unlikely football/dance challenges of “Colossal.” Olney’s smashmouth drama ‘Colossal’ tackles football, disability and sexuality Growing up in Columbus, Mr. Terry wanted to be a magician. And for His Next Trick, Hopping Genres 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Traditional puppet shows, which date to the 15th century, feature the king and his court, a white horse, a mythical snake and even a magician. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Blaine, 45, has become one of the most well-known magicians in popular culture with his mix of dangerous stunts and illusions. David Blaine Under Investigation on Two Sexual Assault Complaints, Police Say 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Why do stand-up comics cede this market to clowns and magicians? A 7-Year-Old Walks Into a Stand-Up Club ... 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Firth plays Stanley, a cynical stage magician who seeks to unmask Sophie, a young American medium, as a fraud. Colin Firth, Emma Stone riff on working with Woody 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z A star athlete, excelling in wresting and football, an avid participant in school plays, a self-taught magician and natural showman. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z To categorize the 31-year-old performer as a "magician" would only validate his point. Derek DelGaudio's 'In & of Itself' fills in the blanks — and the seats — at Geffen Playhouse 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Jay’s friend and sometimes collaborator, David Mamet, also materializes, as do more traditional magicians, none of whom dazzle as brightly as the movie’s subject. Movie Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ 2013-04-17T20:40:36Z Physical comedians, magicians, acrobats and equibalancers are all on the roster as well. A guide to this year’s ‘Moisture’ festivity 2013-03-15T18:55:54Z They play two women – a magician and a librarian – who meet one balmy Paris summer and throw themselves into a joyfully free-associative adventure, trying to save the young prisoner of a haunted house. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Legendary magician Penn Jillette, along with his longtime partner Ray Teller, are currently in their sixth season of their show "Fool Us" on the CW. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z I asked holy men to bless her and when I despaired of them I went to fortune-tellers and magicians. Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright 2013-03-20T13:00:02Z This is something I have heard magicians say offstage. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Shakespeare writes about faeries and ghosts, witches and magicians without any qualms. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy To show that there was nothing hidden up their sleeves, magicians would sometimes publicly pull them up — and use that very action as a way of secreting an object in those sleeves. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z A crowd of young people sing along, serenading the camera and the magician behind it: How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z That a couple of the magicians actually managed to fool two men who I thought knew every trick in the book and have made it their business to expose charlatans was genuinely startling. Disillusioned with The Magicians 2011-01-17T14:26:03Z Instead of the wronged magician grown wise in exile, whose spells further noble ends and happy reconciliations, Stehlin's Prospero highlights the heavy toll that island banishment has taken. A dark 'Tempest Redux' finds its magic at the Odyssey Theatre 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Walk into most magic shops and the magician behind the counter can only perform a handful of what you see. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z Such precautions were put to the test almost immediately when a member of magician David Copperfield’s backstage crew tested positive for coronavirus. At tourist sites, masking up without diluting the experience 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z There are not many people alive who could pull off being an influential political adviser, a mathematician and scientist, and a magician and mystic all at the same time. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z The narrator is the well-known American magician Ricky Jay, a key figure in David Mamet's movies about conmen and heist merchants. The Brothers Bloom 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z “Mystery gone, the magician’s trick told, the gluttony for ‘meaning’ temporarily satisfied, one can now take issue with my intent and avoid the song itself.” Robert Hunter Gave the Grateful Dead Its Voice 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In recompense we get Jonathan Pryce at his most earnest as a widowed businessman and Tim Curry in an amusing bit as a traveling magician. 2010-01-08T04:05:00Z The book, he ponders – which is not so much an autobiography as a "semi autobiographical whimsy" – is loosely structured around a time in the 90s when he worked as a performing magician in a restaurant. Derren Brown: 'I'm being honest about my dishonesty' 2010-10-18T06:59:00Z So I wasn't sure what to expect when I went to meet Eisenberg in a grimly anonymous London hotel to talk about his latest film, the magician adventure drama, Now You See Me. Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social' 2013-07-04T15:58:10Z Mr. Bargatze said the prospect of investing thousands of dollars in the equipment necessary to create a presentable show has deterred many magicians from going virtual, especially older magicians. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z An aerialist, a magician and a stand-up comedian walk into a warehouse. 'Scot Nery's Boobie Trap' in Echo Park puts fringe entertainment on center stage 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Ahmad rummages through a bag and then, like a magician drawing handkerchiefs from a hat, produces the red, nubby fabric. Mine: A scarf’s return, the threads of a friendship recovered 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A writer for hire — his oeuvre is summed up by the vulgar wit of his latest effort, about a magician, “I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered” — the Ghost is tapped for cleanup duties. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z He is a detective, magician and a warrior. Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy - review 2013-07-17T08:00:00Z A draftsman, calligrapher, magician and musician, he traveled all over Northern Europe to entertain kings and aristocrats as well as hoi polloi with amazing feats of physical dexterity. Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Magical handbooks from the time show that Greco-Egyptian magicians used fragrance extensively in their rituals, even scented inks, and doctors believed strong-smelling plant species to be more medically effective than others. Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Prospero, the rightful but usurped Duke of Milan and a masterful magician, literally conjures up a storm in "The Tempest." Review: 'Macbeth,' 'Tempest' among plays staged for free at parks around the Sound 2011-07-19T04:48:06Z These curse tablets are so uniform that historians assume that there was a cottage industry of scribes or magicians churning them out. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Other evenings featured piano recitals, a magician and, in November 2013, a dance performed by choreographer Stephen Galloway, his first since departing the Frankfurt Ballet in 2004. Piero Golia's Chalet Hollywood redefined art experience 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Alain Nu, 52, is a magician and mentalist and the author of “State of Mind: The Man Who Knows Reveals the Secrets of Mind Over Matter.” This magician and mentalist explains how anything you think can become a reality 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The story is unremarkable, but its execution zings, as an orange tabby is accidentally abandoned and lands in the eccentric home of an elderly magician. Lost Cat Finds a Home in ‘Thunder and the House of Magic’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Learn about the journey of food from farm to table, entertainment including magician Steve the Pretty Good and music by Caspar Babypants, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-18T21:20:55Z Then comes the trickiest step, tempering the eggs: it’s a magician’s flick of the wrist, the small skill that makes the soup a gift and a secret. Leaving a Religion and a Marriage, and Gaining a Chicken Soup 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Besides an actor and screenwriter, he's a bestselling author, playwright, producer, magician and fierce banjo player. Steve Martin on eve of his AFI award: 'I never had a vision for my career' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Our Anna learned to love pirates and magicians. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z The magician gets more reserved as the show proceeds. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z When "New York" magazine reporter David Marchese asked Jillette, who appeared on Seasons 5 and 6 of Trump's show, if such tapes existed, the magician responded affirmatively. Penn Jillette on Trump during “Celebrity Apprentice”: “He would say racially insensitive th... 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The novel, out in October, follows a young magician at a Hogwarts-like school named Simon Snow, and he’s already familiar to Rowell’s readers. 'Eleanor and Park' Author Rainbow Rowell Talks 'Fifty Shades' and Franzen 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Advertisement Picasso was more completely himself in three dimensions: a magician, a magpie genius, a comedic entertainer and a tinkerer with superb reflexes. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Charles Benedict is a triple, if unlikely, threat: brilliant defense attorney, amateur magician, and hit man for a Russian gangster. New in crime fiction: Waverly Curtis and Robert Ferrigno 2013-04-10T21:32:44Z At a screening of Eisenberg’s new film, Now You See Me 2, a sequel to the 2013 action-comedy about a gang of adventuring magicians, I spotted a new addition to the repertoire. Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z Later still, it was Steve who would guide me onto the probably deluded path of declaring myself to be a magician. Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z But I hope that people like yourself who aren't magicians, but have what you described as an average interest in magic, come away surprised and delighted by the length magicians go to, to be great. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z I had to admit to myself that it was another art, another marvellous magic, and I just wasn't that kind of magician. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z And Rita, a magician gardener who designs with a lush and wild eye, filled the terraces with gorgeous plants. House Tour: Cold Spring, N.Y. 2010-12-30T20:43:36Z The mini-series tells the entire Harry Houdini tale, from his unsuccessful start as a carnival magician to global celebrity as an escape artist to his later years wrestling with the spiritualism movement. Adrien Brody Prepares 'Houdini' Mini-Series 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “My grandfather was a very skillful amateur magician,” he said. Paul Auster’s Latest Trick? Celebrating 70 With David Blaine 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z “The pitch is unerringly right, the tone is mellow without being mushy, difficult leaps and runs are manipulated with the easy unobtrusiveness of a magician.” Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Benjamin is like an overly chatty but skilled magician; she earns herself a few twee flourishes by telling a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids. Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact? 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Some other shows about, or including, amazing feats: ¶“American Gypsy,” by the writer-performer Ben Whiting, who uses sleight-of-hand magic to tell the story of Jim Cellini, a little-known street magician who died last year. Some Highlights of the Fringe Festival 2010-08-12T20:47:00Z It's true that in the picture Perec wears "a shyly triumphant look as of a magician in mid-flourish / who without knowing how has drawn a cat from a waft of silk." Muscovy by Matthew Francis – review 2013-05-10T15:59:39Z The fez is also a symbol: of bad magicians. Readers recommend songs about hats: the results 2010-07-08T21:50:00Z Mr. Lorayne had begun his professional life as a sleight-of-hand artist and well into old age was considered one of the foremost card magicians in the country. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In MTV’s “Cribs,” a popular documentary-style series in which entertainers — actors, musicians, athletes, the occasional magician — purported to give viewers tours of their private homes, peeks inside refrigerators were a signature element of the show. In the Kitchens of the Rich, Things Are Not as They Seem 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In the next episode it's the Magic Circle Museum, squirrelled away at the society of magicians' HQ in Euston, north London, and the bewilderingly dense Grant Museum, the last remaining zoological museum in London. TV highlights 12/06/2013 2013-06-12T06:00:03Z Accompanied by a starstruck little girl, an over-the-hill magician treks wearily to Edinburgh, where he hopes to find work and an audience for his old-school entertainment. Pick of the Edinburgh film festival 2010-06-09T21:00:00Z Intrigued, she attended a performance and saw a magician swallow needles and pull them out of his stomach. Conjuring up a career with one of NYC’s only female magicians 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The magician came over to me on the first day and said we have to work. Arkin and Carell make magic in `Wonderstone' 2013-03-13T13:47:11Z The hero of “Shut Eye,” a new series on Hulu, is a small-time Los Angeles psychic who used to be a big-time Las Vegas magician. Review: ‘Shut Eye’ on Hulu Follows a Scamming, Small-Time Psychic 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z These are the magicians, after all, who for years have been telling us not to believe in the magic they do. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z More than their material, what resonated for me was their deftness as social magicians, using humor and self-disclosure to turn shame into power. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z Last season we had six women magicians who were on, as not part of a team, but were on as solo performers. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z We get to see one of Houdini’s famous escape routines, but the play isn’t about his skills as a magician. Theater Review: ‘Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini’ at the Axis Theater 2014-03-07T03:00:01Z After Star Trek ended, Nimoy took a role as IMF Agent Paris, a former magician, in the spy show Mission: Impossible. Leonard Nimoy Was So Much More Than Mr. Spock 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z He drafted Mr. O’Keeffe, who stepped forward wearing the bemused expression of someone called onto the stage by a magician. Savoring Costa Rica, Sip By Sip 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It had everything you could want: live tigers, smoke, sequins and two tanned and often bare-chested German magicians. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z Lichtenstein has a lower online profile than his wife; he described himself as a “tech entrepreneur, explorer, and occasional magician” in a 2018 blog post. Meet the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’ rapper accused of laundering billions of dollars in crypto 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z He was a self-taught magician, learning magic tricks from books in the library. Kids' books: Remembering Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman 2010-04-02T11:24:00Z The rest of Now You See Me, which brings four brilliant magicians into collision with various cops and charlatans, nearly fools you into thinking it’s a good movie. Now You See Me: The Customer Is Always Fooled 2013-05-30T22:11:24Z The wicked magician Rothbart is transformed into the Queen of the Night, who has possibly had a liaison with the Prince’s father and is thus possibly the father of the black swan. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z The claps and arm-twirling flourishes of a magician give the classical steps an aura of court magic, and people keep appearing and disappearing, thanks to a black curtain at the rear of the stage. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z You see him in the company of his sister, his parents, his friends and the mysterious visiting magician Drosselmeier. Dance Review: City Ballet?s ?Nutcracker? Recast for the Movies - Review 2011-12-14T22:20:55Z Heroic detective, pilot, poet, magician and victor over all bullies and humbugs, animal or human, Freddy remains a model to us all. Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z As the coronavirus snuffed out live entertainment, magicians, like so many others, have been forced to adapt, trading traditional in-person performances for virtual shows. What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Jim Carrey gives it his all, as always, as the up-and-coming gonzo street magician who threatens Burt's career, but Olivia Wilde gets little more to do than serve as the supportive "girl" as Burt's assistant. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-03-13T18:10:09Z Their keeper — and, perhaps, father — the evil magician Klingsor, is a dirty old man in thick glasses and sweater vest, compulsively smoothing down his few remaining strands of hair. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z So she seeks out supporting player roles — in “Bachelorette,” a “Bridesmaids” with the gloves off; in “Now You See Me,” a magicians’ heist picture opening at the end of the month; and in “Gatsby.” Isla Fisher finds her comfort zone in supporting roles 2013-05-17T21:35:34Z And then there’s Drosselmeyer, the magician, a role whose finest interpreters are often former princes in their fifties and sixties. Princely Duties at “The Nutcracker” 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z "The team that shot this show is nothing short of a magician level." From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z And his manic energy befits a squirrelly sidewalk magician who seems like he might actually lift your watch. Gary Vaynerchuk Is a Rapper’s Best Friend 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z “For me one of the most important things about Klein was that he blurred his life and art together, injecting humor as well as a sense of the magician,” Mr. Brougher said. Inside Art: Yves Klein Works Attract Attention in Sales and Exhibitions 2010-03-11T21:52:00Z Ever since Penn and Teller burst on the scene, every magician seemed to be deconstructing illusions while doing them. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z But when magicians do that, it’s really only to complicate the trick. In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z He's a guy from an estate in Bradford who is now a magician to the stars. Why Dynamo is pure hip-hop magic 2013-04-09T14:54:04Z This year’s audience award winner, “An Honest Liar,” featured the magician James “The Amazing” Randi, who was a hugely popular in-person guest during Q&A sessions after the film. AFI Docs turns in an exceptionally strong year, often at the expense of the U.S. government “I was a hopeless magician, so I jazzed up the act,” he told Life. George Segal, Veteran of Drama and TV Comedy, Is Dead at 87 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But it did introduce excellent young Scottish magicians Barry and Stuart to a wider audience. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z The festivities will include masks, magic and live music, with the magician R. J. Lewis as host, and Dr. Zsa’s Powdered Zydeco Band performing. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:43:37Z After showing up Merlin and thus earning that magician’s lifelong enmity, Hank becomes King Arthur’s right-hand man, eventually granted a special title: The Boss. Review | Your perfect July 4 read: A book packed with politics, preaching and fireworks 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Every few months, at Musha Cay, a private resort in the Bahamas owned by David Copperfield, the magician gathers his guests and tells them the legend of the unknown pirate. Group Adventures, With a Sense of Play 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “A magician never reveals his secrets,” he stated sternly. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z "Hey, I got married again, too — to a magician. Would you like to meet him?" My first marriage was an illusion. My second, real magic 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z Some magicians circulate among the scenes at Rustico’s and two of the city’s major magic stores, all in a Midtown magic zone, within a few blocks of Herald Square. Sleight of Hand in Midtown, Beyond Three-Card Monte 2011-06-23T21:04:32Z “Jar of Fools” was both of the ’90s and timeless, a slim fable of magicians on the lam in Seattle. A Long Visit to Weimar-Era Berlin Through an Epic Graphic Novel 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He worked in the vaudeville theater, in which a variety of performers — singers, jugglers, dancers, magicians — appeared on a single bill. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Brett Schneider is a real magician, the kind who buries your chosen card in a flurry of shuffling and makes it hop to the top of the deck anyway, just for openers. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z A brooding teen who loves fantasy novels and is obsessed with magic, Quentin doesn't find his niche until surrounded by other young magicians. 'The Magician King:' Ready or not, young magicians grow up 2011-08-18T23:50:05Z Gary, a deeply religious man, proudly told me that he had arranged for a choir and a magician to perform for the residents. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z At this point, the evil magician reappears, regains control of the lamp and transports the castle and the new Mrs. Aladdin to North Africa. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z He started doing pantomime, and he always loved magicians onstage. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He was portraying the magician who controls the puppets that are the story’s main characters. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z She called him “a magician,” remembering visiting antique stores together and the way Mr. Grange taught her to embrace different periods and styles. Jacques Grange’s Collection of a Lifetime, Now Up for Sale 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The vintage touches are delightful: The Arabian dance’s turbaned magician in harem pants is a mix of Ballets Russes exoticism and Harry Houdini. Ballet West ‘Nutcracker’ at the Kennedy Center 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z A magician, Mr. Darwin caters to a younger crowd. Spare Times — For Children for May 25-31 2012-05-24T22:25:26Z Robin Morel is descended from England’s cunning-folk: shamans and magicians in the old English tradition. In “Injection” a team of Internet do-gooders get tasked with making the digital space a better place and get it horribly wrong 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z |
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