State Farm and its continual cast of celebrities, lately including the magician David Copperfield.
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But Jillette the magician dismissed the idea that computers permit anonymity which encourages harmful smut.
Onboard were the 12: the poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called gods of our legends.
"The magician who lives in the closet called me a Muggle, " says head librarian Jen Spota, after her first day of work two years ago.
The magician wrapped himself tighter in his blanket, unable to conjure his way out of a fever that had snuck up on him the night before.
The aristocrat fetched cigarettes from the car, where the magician was excitedly explaining the latest giant illusion he was planning, oblivious to the predicament we were in.
He said without the change of venue many people would not have been able to see the magician who became a household name due to his television work.
Produced by Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio, The Magician's Private Library sounds darker and more atmospheric than Miranda's work with The Jealous Girlfriends, and it's rife with references to sleep and dreams.
Grossman has followed this up with a sequel, The Magician King, which delves deeper into both the world of Fillory, the underpinnings of magic, and the magical underground that operates outside the scope of the magician academy.
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American magician Ehrich Weiss was so fascinated by the French magician that he created the now-famous stage name Harry Houdini as tribute.
Mr Bryant emphasised that he did not believe that the News of the World was "the only magician in the dark arts", and he blamed the "whole of the political system" for failing to tackle the problem earlier.
There was a farmer who was well-known throughout the land as a magician with the soil.
Then it is back to Vegas, to uncover what motivates the master magician.
As Presto reveals why it is this type of magic that is her passion, she also gives an insight into the trials and tribulations of the nomadic magician-for-hire.
After ruminating on it for almost 15 years, Mr Fowles turned in a work that was full of Shakespearean and Homeric allusion, the story of an English teacher in Greece who falls under the sway of a fabulously wealthy magician, the Magus of the title, and his parallel fantasy universe.
Melnyk, a cabinet maker by day, calls himself the "skishin' magician, " and boasts that the word "skishing" is now found in the Microsoft Encarta dictionary.
There have been some pretty brazen examples in the past - perhaps none more so than the case involving the world-famous US magician Harry Kellar at the end of the 19th Century.
McCoy, then Denver's offensive coordinator, worked the offense around Tebow's strengths and appeared to be a magician in the process.
She said she would be watching Henson taking part in BBC show Strictly Come Dancing alongside the likes of magician Paul Daniels and former MP Ann Widdecombe.
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Even before the benefits of stereo, which arrived shortly after this recording, this magician of the studio was able to lend palpable atmosphere to his projects.
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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.
Last weekend he had a DJ play music in the clubhouse and a magician do card tricks.
He still couldn't work it out, and ended up bribing another magician at the theatre to provide him with sketches.
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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Home of the La Maison de la Magie, a museum in Blois dedicated to the history of magic and illusionists, the building plays tribute to clockmaker and magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, one of the most influential magicians of his time.
Its name, although reminiscent of the Star Wars warriors, belongs to an ancient Egyptian magician whom Khufu consulted when building the pyramid.
The president is like a magician using misdirection to distract his audience from his real actions and intentions.
It is in the same part of the city that professional English magician and local personality Dan Dent prowls at night during his regular ghost walks.
In this case, however, the patient - a professional magician - was given an epidural anaesthetic, similar to that given to a woman during labour.
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