Sentences with phrase «such as magician»

The event is free; open to the public and includes fun activities for the kids, such as magicians, balloon artists, music performances and much more.

Not exact matches

He became friends with headliners such as Olympic skater Sonja Henie, the Flying Wallendas and magician Harry Houdini.

Former Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo is on another planet at Madrid and, as usual, Argentine magician Lionel Messi is consistently performing at Barcelona; the top quality on show at European level is immense and English clubs are losing out particularly when big Premier League names such as Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale are being sold to rival leagues.

He said he was not a magician, as such, could not eliminate fuel queues with a magic wand.

And he just had a way of coaxing creativity out of people and inspiring people; and when I say people, I mean they ranged from those who are simply lovers of mathematics without necessarily having world class talent to world class mathematicians such as Don Knuth and John Conway and Ron Graham, who was the president of the American Mathematical Society, and a great juggler incidentally; and also I think Ron may be a magician although I am not positive of that.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

We can have these incredible, slow burning series such as The Americans up against the insidious and darkly timely portrait of toxic patriarchy in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale playing against the ridiculous but poignant romp that is SyFy's The Magicians.

This is a film about cinema, specifically an early proponent, magician - turned - filmmaker, Georges Méliès, who made films such as A Trip to the Moon / Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902), and The Impossible Voyage / Voyage à travers l'impossible (1904).

Many movie - goers will recall the «Armageddon» and «Deep Impact» pile - up of 1998, but there has been a slew of recent examples, such as «The Prestige» and «The Illusionist,» both period dramas about magicians in 2006.

While below the high standard of recent efforts such as Blue Jasmine, Magic in the Moonlight is not without a certain retro charm and stars a starchy Colin Firth as a 1920s magician.

Raimi has assembled his own band of technical wizards and movie magicians on the project, which includes cinematographer Peter Deming («Mulholland Dr.,» «Drag Me to Hell»), two - time Academy Award ® — winning production designer Robert Stromberg («Alice in Wonderland,» «Avatar»), Oscar ® - winning film editor Bob Murawski («The Hurt Locker,» the «Spider - Man» trilogy), veteran Oscar ® - nominated costume designer Gary Jones («Spider - Man 2,» «The Talented Mr. Ripley»), visual effects Oscar ® winner Scott Stokdyk («Spider - Man 2,» «Spider - Man») and Academy Award ® — winning special makeup artist Howard Berger («The Chronicles of Narnia» series), who will create the looks of several of the unique denizens of Oz, including creatures such as the Whimsies, the Tinkers and the Winkies, as well as the ghastly look of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Set in 1928, Colin Firth (The Railway Man, The King's Speech) plays Stanley Crawford, a world - famous British illusionist working in disguise as master Chinese magician Wei Ling Soo, whose knowledge that there's no such thing as magic has him take up a side career as a debunker of fraudulent psychics claiming to possess the power to link into the spiritual world.

Like his other explorations into the world of magicians in efforts such as The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Scoop (and New York Stories» Oedipus Wrecks), it's merely meant to entertain, and occasionally dabbles with interesting themes as the icing on the top of this sumptuous dessert of a film.

Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) is an aging magician, on the outs due to younger, flashier magicians such as Steve Gray (Jim Carrey).

Fans can tune in to see dog loving celebrities such as «American Ninja Warrior» co-host Akbar Gbajabiamila, Dr. Evan Antin (People magazine's Pet Vet), Stella Maeve (THE MAGICIANS), Marcc Rose and Wavyy Jonez (UNSOLVED: THE MURDERS OF TUPAC AND THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.) and more on the red carpet and in the crowd as these glamorous pooches square off to win the top prize.

Newcomers and veterans of the Touhou series will love journeying through the land of Gensokyo with Reimu Hakurei, the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, as well as new faces such as the spunky magician Marisa Kirisame, and wind priestess Sanae Kochiya!

A witch — typically a female (men, having powers, are granted more noble titles such as «magician» or «wizard») upsets the social order, the rational order.

Alongside names that will be familiar to most followers of contemporary art, the show features the work of many outsider artists and historical figures who might not even consider themselves artists per se, such as Austrian theorist and educator Rudolf Steiner, black magician Aleister Crowley, and pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

And finally, because this is the internet, after all, there's a blog on law and magic, which worries such things as the application of IP to magician's secrets and the impact of criminal laws on fortune tellers.

If you use a professional name, such as Rob the Famous Magician, this should be placed directly under your legal name, in quotation marks.