In the investment world, hedge fund star Joel Greenblatt is something of a magician.
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There was a farmer who was well-known throughout the land as a magician with the soil.
Debbie McGee is the wife of Paul Daniels, a magician rather older than she is.
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Last weekend he had a DJ play music in the clubhouse and a magician do card tricks.
The president is like a magician using misdirection to distract his audience from his real actions and intentions.
"I'm not a magician ... it is 'Alice in Wonderland, '" Woodford said Thursday at the Tokyo Foreign Correspondent's Club.
McCoy, then Denver's offensive coordinator, worked the offense around Tebow's strengths and appeared to be a magician in the process.
"Everyone thinks I'm a magician - I can just touch him and everything is going to be great, " said Gilbert.
Intriguing novel revolving around the French government's attempt to use a magician to help Paris complete its mid-19th-century conquest of Algeria.
There were basketball drills and contests, along with other activities such as a magician, face painters and balloon makers in a carnival-type setting.
Ms. Zimmerman, a magician who also designed illusions for others, made a pitch to start a youth program, then left while the board decided.
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If you ever watched a magician perform when you were a child (or even as an adult), you know just how magical their powers can seem to be.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is getting the political beat down of a lifetime for attempting to hire a magician to perform at a staff team-building event.
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The movies stars James Franco as Oz, a magician from Kansas who lands in the land of Oz and befriends three witches played by Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachael Weisz.
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Highlights include a 19th-century mantel clock that shows a magician who moves a cup to reveal various hidden objects and a Victorian brass skeleton clock built to look like Westminster Abbey.
The trouble is that many rich and educated Arabs may use a magician to invoke a djinn to sort out their problems, and they certainly do not consider the practice blasphemous.
Before previous games, Maddon had a DJ play music in the clubhouse and a magician do card tricks, and he promised a big animal finale on Wednesday night when the homestand ends.
Klein, a Bronx Democrat who proposed legislation for public financing and stronger enforcement, said he gets requests from civic associations asking if he can pay for a magician or help fund a street fair.
At the end of "The Girl Cut In Two, " Sagnier appears on stage as a magician's assistant, smiling in the spotlight as she hears applause rise from the audience, the attention perhaps curing her depression over lovers lost.
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That Ms. Weems succeeds in evoking an era while revealing her props and directorial cues testifies to her skills as a magician who can tip her hand and nonetheless fool us into sharing a mood of tremulous expectancy.
After the guilty verdict, and a sentence of four months in prison, the sharia court in Ras al-Khaimah (one of the emirates) ruled that anyone found guilty of employing a magician to cast a spell on someone else would be sentenced to death.
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"I don't love telling everything, just for the reason of the effect on people -- like when a magician does something, you really don't want to know -- but if it helps an actual photographer to go out and do cool stuff, I'm for it, " he says.
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When Robbins was fifteen, he began to study magic seriously, after seeing a local magician at a county fair.
Gilbert, the inventor of the Erector Set, was also a professional magician, a graduate of Yale Medical School, an Olympic athlete and a big-game hunter.
Three middle-age blowhards (a supercilious retired soldier, a dull canon and the puffed-up owner of a river bathhouse) vie for the affections of a comely magician's assistant, who seems open to dalliances despite a relationship with her milquetoast employer (wonderfully underplayed by Mr. Menzel).
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In this case, however, the patient - a professional magician - was given an epidural anaesthetic, similar to that given to a woman during labour.
But like a moto magician, Sopheng turned the handlebars this way and that, minutely steering a course between puddles, somehow avoiding the slickest spots that would have sent us flying, gunning the engine moments before we got stuck, fording fathomless puddles when that was the only way, and all with a serene smile.
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