Opponents say he is conjuring up racist demons in a country where immigration has not been a big issue.

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This problem he met by performing conjuring tricks at parties, calling himself Robert Merlin after King Arthur's magician.

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Unlike his predecessor, he deliberately does not bustle about, conjuring up new headline-grabbing policies on a whim: he is quietly putting in place more or less what he promised during the campaign.

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He devised an elaborate travel game, conjuring a sort of early virtual reality.

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In conjuring Vertigo's ghost, he created something new and uncannily familiar, a musical doppelganger eerily appropriate to the Vertigo myth.

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But as I looked at the paintings in his book he pulls off the not-inconsequential feat of conjuring some of the best-known views in the world with fresh eyes and during a subsequent visit to his West 57th Street studio, I realized that in some ways Venice may be among the easier subjects to portray, because it's so open to love.

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In fact he did, he devised a new and improved version of the Tories' conjuring trick.

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For years now he has been the playmaker, the conductor of the Wallaby orchestra, the man conjuring something special to make and break games.

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