Perhaps the magic of paper, and all it has always represented, is something you could just as well do without -- a source of clutter and mustiness.

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What he has never said, and what I attempted, I thought, to appropriately mock yesterday, was the idea that there are magic solutions, that you can put forward a proposal to cut the price at the pump in half on a piece of paper with a couple of magic beans.

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"The Dardennes' gift for shattering simplicity still seems akin to magic, " wrote Joe Morgenstern in this paper.

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