The opening scenes _ when Mill collects pennawin heggs for a rare treat, then drops two of them, and Hansen performs his magic tricks ( Gerety proves a gifted prestidigitator ) _ have a sweetness to them and an eccentric charm.
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They also had a territorial laugh : both general manager-coach Red Auerbach and their point-guard prestidigitator, Bob Cousy, developed their basketball genius in New York high schools _ Auerbach at Eastern District, Cousy at Andrew Jackson.
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He sometimes referred to himself humorously as a " prestidigitator . " Jarrow ( also spelled Jaro & Jarow ) was perhaps best known for creating the lemon trick, in which he would procure paper money from an apparently fresh lemon.
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The revels begin at 2 p . m, with a $ 6.50 admission button in United States funds good for everything from Ballet Creole to Ice Quake !, a speedy figure skating show, to prestidigitators, psychics and Moscow Circus veterans.
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When the digital prestidigitators can take electronic images of President Clinton from the TV news and make many viewers believe that he moonlighted as an actor in a movie _ as happened with Robert Zemeckis'" Contact " in 1997 _ things have gone beyond artifice.
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Style guides differ on a range of issues, but I guarantee that none of them would give an imprimatur to " " There's my dog . " she said as she shook his hand . ", or to the last 2 examples from Prestidigitator.
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Elizabeth Hand wrote, " There is a certain amount of grim humor to " The Prestige ", the blatant Can-You-Top-This ? careerism of dueling prestidigitators whose feud is carried out against the lush backdrop of " fin-de-si�cle"
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Ricardo Barber as a prestidigitator and Nurquez-Bon as the theater director match wits over reality and dramatic presentation in a scene that clearly forecasts the verbal joust between Death and the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's film " The Seventh Seal, " but Garcia Lorca's thoughts are much deeper, darker and more complex.
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The president is, by turns, egomaniacal and insecure, idealistic and self-serving, needy and visionary and petty : a man who would inspire comparisons to Macbeth and Lear and Richard III, a man hailed as " the great legislative prestidigitator of his time " and mocked as a " bootlicker and bully ."
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Focusing on Lungu's ability to surprise his readers, Teodorescu commented : " Once in a while, if one does not want to let himself be conquered by his tricks, one may have reactions of mistrust [ . . . ] Dan Lungu anticipates this reaction as well and builds up complicity for what he does, like a prestidigitator who, at the same time as jokingly letting you in on how he has made you believe that he was able to cut himself in two, leads you into the fog of the next trick [ . . . ].
