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Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience.
Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish Paul Wilson 2010
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We know what's going on behind the conjuror's back.
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Wrapped in a rich dressing-gown, a fanciful present from an admiring Marchesa, curiously embroidered with algebraic figures like a conjuror's robe, and with a skull-cap of black satin on his hive of a head, the man of gravity was seated at a huge claw-footed old table, round as the zodiac.
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The strings pulled between Mr. Mandelson and the media in these days become a matter of obsession for Mr. Brown, of horror that his favorite conjuror's tricks have been played against him.
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Here the magic is a matter of atmosphere: Prospero (Alvin Epstein) is decked out in a velvet-lined cape, Ariel (Marianna Bassham) dons the top hat and black tights of a conjuror's assistant, and the play itself becomes a music-hall turn acted on a tiny thrust stage ringed with footlights that look as though they'd been made by Tom Edison himself.
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It's like watching a conjuror's trick -- you know something clever has been done but you're not quite sure what.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The smaller details, of products and appurtenances and accessories, fulfill the function of the conjuror's other hand.
Bottoms Up 2006
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The smaller details, of products and appurtenances and accessories, fulfill the function of the conjuror's other hand.
Bottoms Up 2006
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Belatedly she recognized that El Greco's gesturing left hand had been a conjuror's ploy to divert attention from what his other hand cradled as he left the corpse behind.
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Belatedly she recognized that El Greco's gesturing left hand had been a conjuror's ploy to divert attention from what his other hand cradled as he left the corpse behind.
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