It's kind of like a magic trick—or being shown how a magic trick works.
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Turns out this bride has ceiling rails and weights to thank for the mesmerizing magic trick (because that's exactly what it looks like to us: a beautiful, majestic magic trick).
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This is the magic trick of cultural criticism, of course.
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It was like, 'Wow this is like a magic trick.
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So like my sister attempted her first magic trick .. pic.twitter.
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It's also a magic trick with the cast we got.
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It felt like a magic trick — mesmerizing, and totally inexplicable.
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I thought it was a magic trick or an illusion.
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It was almost like an optical illusion, a magic trick.
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"Every magic trick has an explanation," he had told us.
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A magic trick has much in common with a thriller.
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Maybe it's more like a good magic trick than I suspected.
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Slipping it in as an aside is like a magic trick.
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A substantial magic trick in the draconian, opaque arena of security.
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Adam Trent opens up about the magic trick that went wrong.
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This is NOT a magic trick though ... it's all too real.
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Or make a Dutch baby, which is like a magic trick.
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It's a magic trick we found money to make this movie.
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Company founder Jack Ma even presented a magic trick on stage.
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And the answer, like a magic trick itself, is not obvious.
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The adaptation was uncanny, a kind of natural-world magic trick.
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This little magic trick was repeated through a series of demos.
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This is definitely not a magic trick that's gonna solve everything.
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West may even be thinking this is his magic trick to pull off, since one of his collaborators has been tweeting about The Prestige, a 2006 movie about two magicians looking to perform the ultimate magic trick.
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There is no magic trick presto, there is only a striking context.
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I can't help but feel like this movie is a magic trick.
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You see it in a different way — you learn a magic trick.
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But for members of the trans community, language isn't a magic trick.
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It was a magic trick that drew a response from one patient.
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"This is not a magic trick," said the work's curator, Jarrod Rawlins.
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This was a chef's magic trick I always meant to figure out.
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It seems like a magic trick, but it's really a design triumph.
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There is no magic trick for collecting a lot more. Economist.com/blogs/buttonwood
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Shin Lim pulled off the ultimate magic trick by winning America's Got Talent.
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I've always considered fashion's number-one magic trick to be its manifesting abilities.
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But one thing they couldn't account for is a magic trick completely bombing.
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It's more magic trick than recipe, and a delicious start to the day.
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Photographic evidence of the bath tub's most impressive magic trick, right this way...
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The effect is akin to giving away the workings of a magic trick.
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We're much more like a cooking show and less like a magic trick.
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In some perverse magic trick, it becomes both atmospheric and far, far away.
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Other odds and ends are tossed in: jokes, audience participation, a magic trick.
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If you're not sure, I spill the beans (not a magic trick) here.
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But he knew, on some level, that comedy can be a magic trick.
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He sometimes wears a fake magic-trick novelty thumb because his finger is sensitive.
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So, what is the magic trick to bail you out of a bad situation?
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Within the plot of the show, some people didn't understand our passionate magic trick.
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"You're feeling everyone's pain on this magic trick," he said to a stupefied man.
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But see Magras's magic trick: Drest's self-belief isn't her strength but her weakness.
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Each one was a magic trick, some alchemical reaction between knowledge, belief and invention.
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Life here is like a magic trick, Ms. Rebucas said, making something from nothing.
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A lot of what constitutes a whodunit, just like a magic trick, is misdirection.
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Slowing automatically to keep from hitting the car ahead felt like a magic trick.
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The Prestige is not just a neat magic trick; it's about rivalry, obsession, science vs.
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Deep down, I'd already learned the hard way that spirituality was not a magic trick.
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It's just garlic, spring onion, butter, salt, and flour—but it's like a magic trick.
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It's a book about art history and the media, but it's also a magic trick.
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"It is a legislative magic trick, a sneaky gimmick designed to disguise their actions," Rep.
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But it is important to approach it as a practical matter, not a magic trick.
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When Spotify launched Discover Weekly a year ago, it seemed like a cool magic trick.
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You no longer get in Twitter fights because you've figured out a magic trick. Yes.
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The only question now is whether it can pull off that kind of magic trick again.
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One of Hoopster's stronger, more evidence-based reasons is how Jason doesn't remember his magic trick.
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But Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom doesn't have the dedication to pull off that particular magic trick.
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It's something you pay for, not a magic trick, so it's been a long educational process.
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By way of contrast, consider this image of an orangutan laughing at a simple magic trick.
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I will never forget his vast legacy and the time he showed me a magic trick.
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I got so many thoughtful presents, some cheesy pick-up lines and even a magic trick.
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In situations where gender harassment is not taken seriously, women may attempt a female magic trick.
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Many veterans and other patriots told us after the show it was their favorite magic trick.
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It's a kind of magic trick they're going to try to pull off in full view.
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Like the duo's name, Gus Ross and Luke Eisner's music came about like a magic trick.
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He also taught his audience about the word "gentrification": "It's like a magic trick," Murphy said.
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Just like a magic trick, like I can stun them, I can add a slot machine.
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Mr. Kwong performs a popular magic trick in this puzzle, and he technically does it twice.
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I'd figured out the magic trick; I no longer needed Blake to tell me who I was.
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Walk up to fellow partier with your coat buttoned-up: 'Hi, want to see a magic trick?
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Unfortunately, there isn't a magic trick you can use to figure out when a person is lying.
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How fraudulent spiritualists would adapt magic-trick methods to in order to create illusions of empirical miracles.
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So were Andresen, the Economist, and other observers tricked by the digital equivalent of a magic trick?
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"If you can make me nostalgic for George W. you're doing a massive magic trick," he added.
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In any magic trick, the first move is the pledge where you do something common or ordinary.
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Surviving periodic cycles of boom-and-bust, the market's continued vitality increasingly looks like a magic trick.
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The unique visual style reads more as collage, as a kind of magic trick, a photorealist manipulation.
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Expectations are therefore high for his next magic trick: creating a video-streaming product to rival Netflix.
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Before one of those operations, in the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, La Sorda saw his first magic trick.
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"I think they do this incredible magic trick in the movie and make it seem effortless," he said.
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Bendjima also captured some shots of Kardashian in the midst of what appears to be a magic trick.
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Her job is a performance, a layered magic trick that requires nothing but the utmost showmanship from her.
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He'd even come into our rehearsals because they were planning to have some sort of magic trick reveal.
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It turned out that he didn't have some magic trick up his sleeve to bring the votes together.
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Unless, that is, it's those same dogs losing their damn doggy minds over a disappearing treat magic trick.
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We decided to do a magic trick that would celebrate the freedoms we could now taste so intensely.
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It looked simple enough, but cut open, revealed several bright vertical layers, like a kind of magic trick.
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German Member of the European Parliament Niklas Nienass has likened its "sleight of hand" to a magic trick.
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Taco Bell has figured out the magic trick to making its food taste even better: more fried dough.
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"Have you ever seen someone do a magic trick and it stumped you for days, weeks, years?" she says.
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Dean's magic trick: Dab a dot of shimmer between your eyes, right where your nose begins to slope. Voilà.
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"I don't need to know how the magic trick works," he writes, in the second sentence of the book.
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But they also know the magic trick of making writing on the page operate like the most ecstatic speech.
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In The New York Times, Wesley Morris wrote a moving account of seeing through Jackson's "magic trick" at last.
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"A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see," says Brown.
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Thus the magic trick of Caribou: pairing one of the most familiar samples ever with one that nobody knows.
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Because of that, it's like I'm watching a magic trick when I hear people who sing like Jeff Buckley.
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The industry wants its innovation to feel like a magic trick rather than a rigorous and potentially painful scientific process.
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"Lonnie Walker revolutionizing NBA Draft Day swag by performing first ever floating hat magic trick," a social media user wrote.
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That harmless magic trick Jason keeps attempting manifests on Pluto as horrible burns covering the lower half of his face.
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I was very popular with my students because I performed a magic trick at the end of classes every Friday.
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In fact normally — not normally, but not as often as I'd like — I kind of skip that whole magic trick.
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It's like a magic trick, with the cheesy eggs setting in the hot stock in so many airy, diaphanous strands.
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For his latest cyberpunk magic trick, he took apart an old broken iPhone and turned it into a flash drive.
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Social media exploded, assuming that Beyoncé, the master of the surprise album release, had repeated her magic trick yet again.
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I've been thinking about him lately as I've watched an even more profound magic trick playing out in our politics.
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"The subway may no longer be a technological marvel, but it continues to perform a daily magic trick," he writes.
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Beurre blanc is butter turned back into cream, the arrow of time reversed in a kind of dark magic trick.
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As our reviewer, Manuel Gonzales, put it, "What Gregory accomplishes in his seventh novel is both magic and magic trick."
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It was an elaborate system, but like a magic trick, it didn't matter how they did it, just that it worked.
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She was drawing her listeners close with one hand and then showing how she did the magic trick with the other.
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Watching the eccentric luddite Christo bringing the installation to life is like watching a magician perform a drawn-out magic trick.
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Cherry on top: the Today Show posting another video of a primate losing it over a magic trick two days ago.
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"That was the magic trick," said Susan Marasciulo, who said her mentally ill son had his life transformed by Kendra's Law.
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Something about it feels like a magic trick, like if I think about it too hard, it will ruin the fun.
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It's the Yosemite Firefall in California, a natural magic trick that appears for only a short time in February every year.
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"Whatever's best to serve that experience, whether it's a 100-year-old magic trick like Pepper's Ghost, or advanced animatronics," she says.
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The object of this viral endeavor, which has spread across social media, is to confuse your pet with a simple magic trick.
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With all of these factors at play, the magic trick known as the "vanishing paycheck" isn't so mysterious or magical after all.
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The chaos and multiplicity of power, then, can be something of a magic trick, keeping us arguing forever about who has it.
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They'll never see each other, or themselves, as clearly as the reader gets to see them both — that's the magic trick here.
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It has the beauty of a lyric poem and manages the dazzling magic trick of blurring the line between life and death.
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In Arizona State Legislature, he wrote a strongly worded dissent accusing the majority of performing a "magic trick" with the Constitution's language.
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If you always thought these were some magic trick only made possible by the experts at your favorite dumpling spot, think again.
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DJ Khaled seems genuinely dumbfounded and amazed at the research Nardwuar did on him like he was David Blaine doing a magic trick.
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This particular magic trick happens thanks to JavaScript operating in your browser and detecting what's happening on a particular site in real time.
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"The Passenger" is part philosophy course and part magic trick, with a healthy dose of The Matrix Reloaded thrown in for good measure.
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Qualcomm's magic trick for this to happen is to offload the processes from the central quad-core processor to the QCC1110 co-processor.
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But even without recent events, Disney was having to work harder to pull off its "not a worry in the world" magic trick.
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But this mistakes fiction for a magic trick, in which the audience is to be kept in the dark until the final reveal.
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These vague notions of progress perform a sort of magic trick, hiding political choices under a curtain of assumptions which continue to linger.
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CreditCreditDave Hogan/Getty Images If the average cultural experience demands the suspension of disbelief, if we oughtn't think too much about this movie we're watching, this novel we're reading, this magic trick being performed right before our eyes, if being entertained means setting aside skepticism, logic and possibly a sense of morality, then what a magic trick we had in Michael Jackson.
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I felt like I was given a gift the first time I saw this video of a baboon's response to a basic magic trick.
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One bit featured Fallon performing a magic trick: he'd hold up a sheet, and then seemingly produce a former Beatle out of thin air.
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While there's a method to every magic trick, some of them are too out of this world to even conjure up any reasonable explanation.
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It's as if they've just pulled off the ultimate magic trick, and in many ways, they have—except it's not a trick at all.
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By their separate actions, they have turned the so-called "nuclear option" from a parliamentary magic trick, into a way to alter Senate procedure.
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I'm a sucker for Schrödinger puzzles, and while this is not one of those, the effect is still thrilling, just like a magic trick.
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The magic trick Bernie performed seems to have been, based on my notes and Gchats, just talking to me like I was a real person.
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Not only is the result Instagram-ready, the marbleized appearance makes slicing into these cakes look like a Sword and the Stone-style magic trick.
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It's our own nature — we're so sure of ourselves — that makes us think our idea will be the magic trick that solves all our problems.
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Taylor, never the type of woman to pull a magic trick only once, opens the blinds again to reveal that she is also in Miami.
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Every iota of Trump's success is a con, a dark magic trick, built on illusion and hypnosis and the impenetrable magical thinking of his followers.
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Disney's magic trick, of course, is to have it both ways: The company's parks sell nostalgia, but they must also appeal to the Snapchat generation.
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In one recent experiment, for example, Aimee E. Stahl and Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins showed 11-month-old babies a sort of magic trick.
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Set yourself up for investing successThere is no magic trick that will make you a ton of money in the stock market with no risk.
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Best of all, the episode ends with a dirty joke—a kind of magic trick, straight out of burlesque, and one that works off surprise.
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The whole thing looked like a much, much creepier version of that magic trick where the magician pulls a super-long handkerchief from his pocket.
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The touch behind this shot is basically a magic trick, one learned after torn cartilage in his left hip cut Aldridge's freshman year in college short.
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VR is akin to a super-technological magic trick in which beholders believe they see something they don't really see and that does not really exist.
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I was there to film a magic trick that I had invented, which would then be sold to other magicians through a prominent online retail outlet.
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With each of these releases, it was like the makeup gods pulled a logic-defying magic trick that made the art of looking good shockingly simple.
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You pull pants over your legs and shirts over your chest — but I had no clue how to perform Pop's suave magic trick, this origamilike wonder.
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Alexandre Zeller, who at the time was the head of H.S.B.C.'s Swiss operations, has spoken of the theft as if it were a magic trick.
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As Mr. Berlin notes below, it's tricky to visually represent a magic trick in a word grid, but he seems to have pulled them all off.
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Abrams returns to close out things with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" (in theaters Friday) and clearly tries to pull off the magic trick twice.
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Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Group, showed up to perform a magic trick, and the new Alibaba Pictures' film production was also promoted during the gala.
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"They just gave me this," he finally said, revealing his new employment authorization card, cupped inside his palm as if he had just performed a magic trick.
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It's commonly known as red bread mold, and it can perform a magic trick: It can take household chemicals and turn them into components for rechargeable batteries.
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Let's just say it's going to take more than a simple magic trick to get us back on track — but luckily, Rowling's magic is anything but predictable.
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They were 7-2-2 through 11 games and reached a high point of 16-9473-2 in mid-November, but it was mostly a magic trick.
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In Christopher Nolan's criminally underrated The Prestige, Christian Bale plays a magician who disguises his identical twin so that they can perform a seemingly impossible magic trick.
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"Everyone has a story," said Mark Collins, 54, who recalled working in a bank when Ali, then in his magic-trick phase, performed an illusion of levitation.
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It's not a magic trick — your paycheck may seem like it's vanishing faster than you can earn it, but there are reasons why this seems to happen.
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The new menu items don't have to be healthier or even 100% vegan — they just need to pull off the magic trick of swapping meat for plants.
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Elon Musk pulled off an incredible magic trick this week by distracting everyone from terrible Tesla results with a successful rocket launch, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday.
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Part meticulous animatronic puppet, part extremely inspired lighting and editing, Baby Yoda is a true magic trick that engages our hearts, minds, and capacity for self-deception.
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Inside, greens stand upright, just as they grow in the fields, the reservoir of water at the bottom a magic trick that prolongs the illusion of life.
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Utilizing HTC VIVE headsets, iPads, the Pepper's Ghost trick, amongst other various illusion techniques, viewers experience the exhibition space and the visual magic trick embedded in each piece.
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Even with Mozgov's contract, flipping an expiring Lopez for a player as young, talented, and intriguing as Russell is a magic trick by Nets general manager Sean Marks.
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Sophie and Beatrice also cracked up at Mike's "magic" trick as he placed the miniature head topper back into his top hat and returned it to his head.
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As the game begins in earnest, it's quickly revealed that the magic trick performed in its opening moments is, in a sense, just a prelude for what follows.
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"I think that the magic trick of the show is that it is funny, and then it turns funny inside out," said Mike Birbiglia, the comedian and filmmaker.
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And something about her description of this particular tactic — a fix that seemed simple but also sort of mysterious, like a magic trick — seemed to hit a nerve.
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"It's one of those things I pull out kind of as, like, the magic trick — 'Here, you'll probably like this more than you think you will,'" Owen said.
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The truth is, you're never too old to appreciate a good magic trick, and if there's anything to support that claim it's probably LIMBO's 6,700+ backers on Kickstarter.
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The Chris Gethard Show might have been my favorite talk show of the decade, a weird, tossed-off calamity that emerged every week like an odd magic trick.
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Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos KILLED IT on "America's Got Talent" on Tuesday -- pulling off a magic trick that left Simon Cowell's jaw thiiiis close to the floor.
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Tonight's convention program felt like trying to look closely at Hillary Clinton, only to have your eye strategically distracted, time and again, like the mark in a magic trick.
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Comedian and magician Justin Willman decided to take down ridiculous anti-trans bathroom arguments using a deceptively simple magic trick and some good old fashioned peanut butter and jelly.
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To me, the magic trick every time Bernie Sanders comes on, people are so happy to see him, but he pretty much just talks about things he's upset about.
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That's as much of a magic trick as the lamb I had during my idyll, and easier to pull off if you don't have immediate access to incredible groceries.
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When we see Christo wheel his suitcase out of his hotel room, we know this is the start of yet another long-drawn magic trick he plans to pull.
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The character Cutter in Christopher Priest's novel-turned-movie, The Prestige cogently lays out the important parts of this structure: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.
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It's by no means a magic trick that instantly solves all networking problems, but quickly toggle airplane mode the next time you're struggling for connectivity, and see if it helps.
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The show includes lots of audience participation, and this Sunday, in honor of Father's Day, Mr. Darwin will teach children and their fathers a special magic trick to perform together.
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If you think improvising an entire show seems like a magic trick, doing it with a full band and jokes that rhyme is like making the Statue of Liberty disappear.
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Here's a neat little magic trick, one that brings the pleasures of a street fair into a big bowl on your dining room table: sausage and peppers pasta with broccoli.
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One girl popped a "cherry" balloon in front of Colton, another teased him with a real peach, and yet another took away his "V" card in a corny magic trick.
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White nationalists' choice of the polo shirt is a disturbingly smart one: The shirts are a magic trick that allows them to disappear while also making their ideology even more visible.
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TV isn't about big stories; it's about lots and lots of small ones that add up to something larger in the end, a kind of magic trick that unfolds across years.
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And if that means we might end a hard day by watching a baboon amazed by a magic trick or a cat ecstatic about being petted, then bring on the GIFs.
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There were shops where as a young boy, you could buy a magic trick, and the person behind the counter would give you a lesson on how to do that trick.
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With Casper, you simply buy the mattress online and it's shipped to you in a comically small box (the compressed foam expands into a full-sized mattress, like a magic trick).
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One of these also covers a little spot big enough for a bunny in a magic trick, although magicians still manage to get away without mechanical aids like this (I think!).
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For example, for almost a century, historians claimed the first recorded magic trick involved a man named Djedi who decapitated and then resurrected a goose in ancient Egypt for the Pharaoh.
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Rami Malek's performance on Mr. Robot can feel a little like a magic trick; you know he's holding something back from you, but you don't quite know what or how or why.
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The technical aspects are pretty complicated, but the effect was meant to be very simple, and that was to kind of make the audience forget that they're looking at a magic trick.
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When we got back to doing our own magic show at our own theater in Las Vegas, we wanted to do a new magic trick that would express our newly-understood patriotism.
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Even if you wind up being bamboozled by the theme, don't allow frustration to set in; I encourage you to enjoy the experience in the same way you would a magic trick.
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This is an urban magic trick that Miriam Berman, a preservationist and author of the book "Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks," likes to share with people she's showing around.
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There's been a lot of work and research put into this concept over the years, but MIT's newest system uses relatively affordable and readily available technology to pull off this seemingly magic trick.
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During times of great unrest and unease often comes the rawest creativity, frivolity, hedonism, and excitement (the Calvin Klein show notes spelled out this magic trick: "It's about American horror and American beauty").
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Hope you had breakfast already ... Here's Steph Curry and Drake being absolutely floored by an awesome (and revolting) David Blaine magic trick ... involving a live frogs, regurgitation, and a couple of wine glasses.
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Here's another, and it's not even a recipe but a kind of low-speed magic trick you can use tonight or this weekend, whenever you want to blow minds: toaster-oven roasted garlic.
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The tech-driven facial's magic trick starts by prepping skin without the use of pore-softening steam, which some experts say can exacerbate redness and sensitivity by dilating the blood vessels in the skin.
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The magic trick of pulling some new innovation out of a hat isn't necessarily nefarious, but it is a trick—and understanding why a billionaire inventor is trying to distract you is always worthwhile.
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Of the cast, no one is more verbally dexterous than Joey Bland, whose assured ability to string together complex rhymes with dense wordplay and twisty sentence structure does come off like a magic trick.
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A testament to how quickly and efficiently both the 80-year-old Mr Scott and the 88-year-old Mr Plummer work, their magic trick probably merits some kind of Outstanding Technical Achievement award.
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I realize the absurdity of talking about Winnie the Pooh, of all characters, in this kind of context, but that is part of the magic trick the Christopher Robin is able to pull off.
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With his pistol in his left hand — he does not recall unholstering it, saying it got there "like a magic trick" — he scurried behind a van, convinced a gunman could approach at any second.
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The Trump administration's attempt to squeeze self-employed individuals into the definition of employer is "a magic trick," and the rationale offered by the Labor Department is a sleight of hand, Judge Bates said.
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Director David Lowery wrote the screenplay, and the way he takes a simple, small story of love and tragedy, then expands it until it's about everything feels both natural and like a magic trick.
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Outside, after smoking a cigarette, Mystery pulls off a thick silver ring with the fleur-de-lis engraved on the front — it's his brother's — and does a little magic trick, making it disappear with ease.
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Because compared to its past iterations, these shorts-and-skirt combinations now opt for more incognito silhouettes that prove to be indispensable while trying to solve summer layering without actual layers; quite the magic trick.
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In a sudden twist, Pink then appeared on screen singing from outside her changing room and walking towards the arena in a bathroom, giving the impression that she'd performed a magic trick and stepped backstage.
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Peter, who tries to hide the fact that he's Spider-Man by donning a black ninja version of his costume (inspiring Europeans to call him "the Night Monkey"), is fighting a magic trick of evil.
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We've watched in a combination of disgust and awe as Sandra Lee, MD, dismantled massive cysts, did her punch-and-curette magic trick, and squeezed some steatocystomas, but this one really caught us off-guard.
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There's no big secret around it or magic trick Apple is trying to pull off; the battery in this one is simply bigger The new Sport watch starts at $369, and will ship next week.
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But tweaking the language from "tax" to "fee" isn't a magic trick that will finally make a climate bill appear in Washington state, says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
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Maybe they think it's a crime if Penn & Teller burned a flag on national TV. Maybe some people will think that we should go to jail, or lose our citizenship, for a patriotic magic trick.
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If this is a magic trick, then this is all of the distraction on the way to the reveal — and without that reveal (which is presumably coming sometime), the distraction is all the more evident.
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It's Panda Express the way you want Panda Express to be every time you eat there on the way to someplace else and it falls short, and that is the best kind of magic trick.
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It's all part of what Springsteen has deemed his magic trick: that a man like himself, unattractive in voice and appearance, should nonetheless build a rollicking five-decade career in service to a higher calling.
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The egg salad is tucked between two slices of super-soft Japanese milk bread, with a snug soft-boiled egg hidden in each piece, revealing the deep orange, jammy yolks like a culinary magic trick.
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The slight warming and slick of oil make for a slippery velvet texture, and the fish's being neither cold nor hot — neither raw nor cooked — is like a magic trick that amplifies purity of flavor.
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" On Saturday, Murphy updated this issue to show how times had changed over 35 years by announcing that the new word of the day was "gentrification," which he jokingly explained, "It's like a magic trick.
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"You'd almost worry that that sort of unveiling of a trick behind an artwork is sort of akin to revealing the secret behind a magic trick, and that maybe it loses something," Mr. Finn said.
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He had to go in front of an audience of four or five thousand people at Comic Con and do some some magic trick and get the audience all involved and he was sh—-g himself.
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And while there might not be a magic trick to boosting your self-esteem forever, acting more confident really might help you feel more self-assured — or at least come off that way to other people.
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Part of the genius of Arrested Development is that it's a magic trick that shows you exactly what it's doing at all times and still arrives at a conclusion so unexpected you laugh all the same.
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" And still more art forms have to work together with film: "You're adding cinematography, and you're adding camera movement so it's even harder to make the magic trick, but when it does it's even more powerful.
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Though both are experts in epidemiology and disease ecology, Welsh and Updyke pull off the magic trick of making you feel, as you listen, like you could simply be getting drinks with two very smart friends.
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Watching them kind of feels like waiting for the end of a magic trick, or, I guess, to find out what it might be possible to will into being with sheer effort, insistence, and really good tweets.
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Musk noted during his presentation that this little magic trick was due in part to seating the driver further forward, while still leaving room for a front trunk (the "frunk") and a normal trunk in the rear.
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Like, for instance, you could make cheese enchiladas with chili gravy (above) tonight, serve the dish as if unveiling a magic trick, a weekend-style dinner on a Monday night, even though the world outside is frightful.
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" When I asked why there was so much secrecy about Miquela's origins and the comic-book narrative that's unfolded around her, they replied, "If I show you how the magic trick works, then the magic is less effective.
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To pull off this magic trick, GMM invests in the best and brightest people, a decision that gives us a clear edge versus some other competitors, who are "me too" suppliers that only try to copy existing technology.
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Books of The Times With "Nutshell," Ian McEwan has performed an incongruous magic trick, mashing up the premises of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Amy Heckerling's 1989 movie, "Look Who's Talking," to create a smart, funny and utterly captivating novel.
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The Parker House rolls are gravity-defying orbs served with soft cultured butter that, in the evening's best magic trick, rises from a custom-made dish in six identical ridged curls, like shrimp performing a Busby Berkeley routine.
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There's no magic trick for weaning yourself off the impulse to reach for your phone every single time you've got nothing else to do—except for just being aware of the impulse and trying not to give into it.
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"Ian McEwan has performed an incongruous magic trick, mashing up the premises of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Amy Heckerling's 1989 movie, 'Look Who's Talking,' to create a smart, funny and utterly captivating novel," Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times.
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Honda appears to have pulled off a "magic trick" with the Accord, which is appealing even in its less expensive trim levels, said Chris Paukert, an auto show juror and managing editor of Road Show by CNET, in a release.
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She carries herself with a sighing shrug and a roll of the eyes, but make no mistake: The structure of this set is carefully assembled like a magic trick, using misdirection and audience manipulation, and the pace is managed deftly.
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Ray and his family squabble over the most mundane things, and even though you know they love each other deep down, the way those dumb arguments grow to encompass everybody onscreen feels a little like a magic trick every week.
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The debate: With this madcap, stylistically varied portrait of Dick Cheney and the world he made, Adam McKay hoped to repeat the magic trick he pulled off with "The Big Short": turning convoluted recent history into fun and informative popcorn fare.
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They have added resonance in the context of the opera, but they can be savored on their own as examples of Ashley's weird magic trick: turning a voice talking about everyday life in a Midwestern town into a rich, strange music.
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Click here to view original GIFIt's more fun to believe in a world where magic can possibly exist but then you see a different camera angle of a cool magic trick and realize it's all just misdirection, tricks, and fantastic finger dexterity.
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" '"A Star Is Born" Is One Hell of a Magic Trick' [Vulture] David Edelstein offers an ambivalent take on the film, writing that "the first half of 'A Star Is Born' couldn't be more charming" while describing the second half as "much lesser.
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But such additions to the dialogue are, on balance, less successful than many of Frljic's wittier staging ideas, such as a magic trick in which an Austrian flag locked in the coffin transforms into an endless ream of various European flags sewn together.
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Aside from Mr. Diamantopoulos and Ms. Rudolph sweetly covering for her stumbling over a line, "A Christmas Story Live!" lacked the feeling of a piece of theater unfolding in front of the audience's eyes in real time, like a slick magic trick.
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But whereas in the archetypal thriller, our world is upended at the outset and the laws of reality reassert themselves by the end, the archetypal magic trick inverts this structure: Everything appears to be normal until the decisive moment when, inexplicably, it isn't.
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As he gesticulated toward the glass doors to the Future team's offices, which are at the back of Laces, his voice had the breathless tenor of a whisper without being quiet; everything he said sounded like it could be followed by a magic trick.
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Rmax: No.Joe Furlow: I think, when you come here and you are amazed by our professionals that we have in here on a week-to-week basis, it takes you back to that first magic trick that you saw, at whatever age it was.
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Say what you will about the outside of the Cybertruck, but I (and the rear-seat passengers) had more space to spread out than previously seemed possible in a vehicle of this size, almost as if Tesla had pulled off some sort of magic trick.
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It was as if the people in the room were expecting a different kind of magic trick, one where Musk would coyly laugh before revealing the true Tesla pickup truck, which would still eat Ford F-150s for breakfast but look a little less alien.
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One of Neil Patrick Harris' most iconic roles to date is How I Met Your Mother's power suit-wearing, magic trick-loving, catchphrase-savant, womanizer Barney Stinson—and it's led to many of his character's most famous, on-screen phrases becoming forever immortalized as viral GIFs.
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While her success can seem easy from the outside looking in, what she has pulled off is a bit of a magic trick; Damas has created a version of French girl chic that American women can't live but can buy into — and they do so in droves.
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I never thought I could hold a baby for an hour — my head a few inches from hers, hanging on every sigh, waiting intently for the next scrunch of her lips or arch of her barely visible eyebrows — perfectly happy, an idiot entranced by a magic trick.
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But my scientific interest was that of a child: I had liked hooking up the tubes and watching the substances change when we did stuff to them, had liked the magic trick of cleaning the lab bench off with acetone, how the solvent made droplets of water disappear.
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Instead, it takes the essence of what Cameron's movie was always able to do — transporting audiences to a fantastic new world — and executes the same magic trick in the physical realm, creating a new chapter in the mythology while also giving visitors the chance to emotionally invest in the location itself.
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When Star Wars films are at their best, the characters themselves provide the strongest throughline, and the magic trick J.J. Abrams and co-writer Lawrence Kasdan pulled off with The Force Awakens was creating characters like Rey and BB-8, who almost instantly became part of our larger cultural consciousness.
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The Rome-based designer Delfina Delettrez Fendi wrote in an email that she likes to give the pearl "the illusion of being magically suspended on the body, as a magic trick" — so she hung cultured pearls from ultrathin gold chains for a geometric design that she used in earrings and necklaces.
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Even though that investment has been a wash, a result most spectacularly of floundering investments in WeWork (see the slide deck that SoftBank put out this week if you want an entertaining magic trick to watch money disappear), the Public Investment Fund is reportedly considering contributing to a second Vision Fund.
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Rob Drummond, who stunned audiences at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with "Bullet Catch," a solo show in which he performed the magic trick of the title, will return to the festival this summer with the more personal "In Fidelity," a scientific exploration of the concept of love (and an onstage dating game).
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The number is essentially a statistical magic trick, a way of boiling down and averaging out every layer of everyday sexist, racist, circumstantial bullshit we all experience to varying degrees into a number we can use to both describe our general collective position as female workers in this economy and to measure our progress.
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Adelaide and her family — and their friends, the Tyler family (Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, and twins Cali and Noelle Sheldon) — live in comparative luxury, and have the freedom to fixate on trivia like whether Jacob can get a magic trick to work, or whether Gabe's tiny new boat is big enough for the whole family.
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After CNN published its report, Maggie Parker, a contributor to People magazine, wrote a first-person piece that said when she asked Mr. Freeman during a 2013 interview, "If you could do one magic trick, what would it be?" he responded, "You wouldn't have a stitch on," suggesting he wanted to see her naked.
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It's like he was the most chosen of them all: It glides to him gracefully as he casually—almost no-look—grabs them out of the air (I imagine with two fingers, or maybe chopsticks to make it harder) and neatly tucks the coupon under his arm like a sleight-of-hand magic trick.
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Dunst's character is Krystal Stubbs, whose gullible and ambitious husband Travis (Alexander Skarsgård) is convinced he can make his family rich by following the tenets of FAM, a pyramid scheme run by the mysterious millionaire Obie Garbeau II. From the first shot of Episode 1, OBAG performs something of a magic trick with these two characters.
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Unlike modern-day illusionist David Blaine's remarkable ability to spend 44 days dangling 30 feet in the air in a transparent Plexiglas case over London's River Thames without eating, pulling a rabbit out of a hat is the kind of magic trick anyone can learn, provided they've got a hat, a rabbit, and a knack for sleight of hand.
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Given all the promotion that preceded what were billed as "Rick Grimes' final episodes," it all felt far too cute -- another magic trick designed to play with audience expectations that, once again, opened the show to charges of toying with fans' emotions, much like the old Glenn-under-the-trash-compactor twist of a few years ago.
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Perhaps the lesson to take away from the Avalanches' pleasant, soothing, and relatively unexciting return is that we could all stand to apply better management to our expectations at large: after all, it's still impressive when someone pulls off a magic trick twice, but it's unfair to expect the trick to be as effective the second time around.
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Richard gets a lesson in how to be a true "Twin Peaks" weirdo from Red (Balthazar Getty), an offbeat crime boss who strikes strange poses and threatens to "saw your head open and eat your brains," before doing a magic trick that involves flipping a dime that hangs in the air forever and then briefly materializes in Richard's mouth.
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It pulls liberally from the recent-ish history of kitsch, including obvious references to a handful of secular Christmas classics — mostly A Christmas Story and Home Alone — and faster, weirder winks at totally unrelated action-movie camp, like Sam Rockwell's big heel-turn moment in Charlie's Angels, or Heath Ledger's infinitely memed "How about a magic trick?" bit in The Dark Knight.
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Perhaps you can eat meals on there when not watching TV. Were I in a position to drop that much on a set, I would almost certainly invite people over, ask if they wanted to watch some TV, wait for them to ask where my set is and then, boom, there's a TV slowly rising from a countertop, like some sort of one-percenter magic trick.
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Through two 10-episode seasons — and now at the start of an eight-episode final run — "The Leftovers" has played to the strengths of its head writer and executive producer, Damon Lindelof, who with his most famous series, "Lost," learned that viewers love it when something on TV makes their spines tingle, and get cranky when someone spoils a magic trick by spilling its secrets.
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At the same time, he captured children's resilience — their spirit and pluck in the face of danger and their remarkable resourcefulness, whether it's Max facing down the wild things with their "terrible teeth" and "terrible claws" with "the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once"; or the children in "Brundibar" (which he and the playwright Tony Kushner adapted from the Czech children's opera), who manage to outwit the town bully.
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The camera lingers on the two women, aestheticizes them, yet doesn't reduce or objectify them—and this magic trick is performed as though it's easy, as though many conventions that have long been naturalized can drop away without even needing to be subverted, as though you can just snip the misogyny out of classical painting, eroticism, romance, out of so many areas of high culture, and leave their energy and beauty uncontaminated.
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Californians and visitors will have close-up access to some of the country's most iconic photography: a carte-de-visite of seated underground railroad leader Harriet Tubman in the late 1860s; Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" image, which has come to symbolize the Great Depression; an intimate snapshot of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier on their wedding day in 1953; the Wright brothers' first flight, in 1903; and Harry Houdini doing a magic trick in 1908.
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In fact, his facial hair is so crucial it actually serves to mark the passage of time on the hit TV show This Is Us. So naturally, with shooting for season 2 just around the corner, the show's star is not playing around when it comes to his grooming routine, as he made abundantly clear in a new interview with GQ. First things first, there's no magic trick or pill that will get you the bushy beard of your dreams.
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The episode opens with "Two Weeks Ago" and then continues pressing forward with other time stamps as Axe and his people lay the foundations for Chipotle-level public health disaster on the day of Ice Juice's highly anticipated I.P.O. When Koppelman and Levien return to the same structural gamesmanship after Axe has seemingly won the day, it's like the reveal of a "how did they do that?" magic trick: Now all the earlier events, the ones that seemed so deviously clever on Axe's part, are upended piece by piece.
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