Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Band members were rapper Rudeboy Remmington ( Patrick Tilon ), guitarist Tres Manos ( René van Barneveld ), bassist Sil ( Silvano Matadin ), drummer Magic Stick ( Michel Schoots ) and DJ DNA ( DoNotAsk ) ( Arjen de Vreede ).

Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.

The sketches for Magic in Medicine and Modern Medicine were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's " New Horizons in American Art ".

One of Barrett's pupils, John Parkin, created his own handwritten grimoire, The Grand Oracle of Heaven, or, The Art of Divine Magic, although it was never actually published, largely because Britain at the time was at war with France, and grimoires were commonly associated with the French.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

The rights to the Might and Magic name were purchased for USD 1. 3 million by Ubisoft, who " rebooted " the franchise with a new series with no apparent connection to the previous continuity, starting with the games Heroes of Might and Magic V and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

There were several spin-offs from the main series, including Heroes of Might and Magic, Crusaders of Might and Magic, Warriors of Might and Magic, Legends of Might and Magic, and the fanmade Swords of Xeen.

In-room gimmicks such as the coin-operated Magic Fingers vibrating bed were briefly popular ; introduced 1958, these were largely removed in the 1970s due to vandalism of the coin boxes.

Besides The Byrds, these included Iron Butterfly, Love, Spirit, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, The United States of America, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, and the Electric Prunes ; perhaps the most commercially successful were The Doors.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Industrial Light & Magic often used stop motion model animation for films such as the original Star Wars trilogy: the chess sequence in Star Wars, the Tauntauns and AT-AT walkers in The Empire Strikes Back, and the AT-ST walkers in Return of the Jedi were all stop motion animation, some of it using the Go films.

Its Might and Magic and especially Heroes of Might and Magic series from subsidiary New World Computing were perhaps the most popular among their games at the time of release.

Also, two large tracts totaling $ 1. 5 million were sold, and smaller tracts of flatlands and cattle pastures were purchased by exotic-sounding companies such as the Latin-American Development and Management Corporation and the Reedy Creek Ranch Corporation ( Some of these names are now memorialized on a window above Main Street, U. S. A. in the Magic Kingdom ).

The Magic Flute is noted for its prominent Masonic elements ; Schikaneder and Mozart were Masons and lodge brothers ( see: Mozart and Freemasonry ).

Magic was also used for protection against the angry deities, jealous ghosts, foreign demons and sorcerers who were thought to cause illness, accidents, poverty and infertility.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

Carpenter and Herbert have written, " He was the subject of a romantic and unreliable biography, Friese-Greene, Close-Up of an Inventor which was then turned into an even more misleading film The Magic Box.

The Magic then hired Chuck Daly to be head coach for the 1997 – 98 season.

The Magic then signed free agent Hedo Türkoğlu.

In the playoffs, the Magic beat the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the playoffs and then the defending champions, the Boston Celtics, in the Eastern Conference semifinals, behind assistant coach Patrick Ewing's guarantee that they would win Game 7 of that series.

The Cavs then met the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals.

They then won their fifteenth NBA championship by defeating the Orlando Magic in five games in the NBA finals.

* Magic Mushroom, a type of air freshener sold in the 1980s and 1990s under the Air Wick brand ( then owned by Reckitt and Colman, now Reckitt Benckiser )

He went on to play piano for a Broadway show called The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) television program from 1975 to 1980 ( except for a brief departure in 1977 ).

Once dubbed " The Magic City ," Farrell sprung up practically overnight when a steel mill was constructed in 1901 on a plain bordering the Shenango River in what was then part of Hickory Township ( now Hermitage ).

Luther Adler had previously portrayed Hitler in two 1951 feature films: The Magic Face, a fantasy about a European impersonator who somehow manages to murder " der Fuehrer " and then assumes his identity ; and The Desert Fox, a drama about Erwin Rommel.

Steve Andreas, one of Bandler and Grinder's students, wrote Virginia Satir: The Patterns of Her Magic ( 1991 ) in which he summarized the major patterns of Satir's work, and then showed how Satir applied them in a richly annotated verbatim transcript of a videotaped session titled " Forgiving Parents ".

Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody " Barack the Magic Negro ", written and recorded by Paul Shanklin for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, after the term was first applied to then presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic, David Ehrenstein, in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007.

They wrote the hit songs: " A Teenager in Love "; " Save The Last Dance For Me "; " Hushabye "; " This Magic Moment "; " Turn Me Loose "; " Sweets For My Sweet " ( a hit for the Drifters and then the Searchers ); " Go Jimmy Go ", " Little Sister "; " Surrender "; "( Marie's the Name ) His Latest Flame ".

Her dark side then took over, seeking to destroy the Magic Knights for killing her love.

When a print workbook version fell through, McCall's company decided to produce their own animated versions of the songs, which they then sold to ABC ( which was already the advertising company's biggest account ) based on a demo animation of the original " Three Is A Magic Number " for its Saturday morning lineup.

These comics teamed Sniffles with a little girl named Mary Jane who could shrink herself to mouse size, originally by sprinkling magic sand or simply by wishing it and then, throughout most of the series, by reciting " Magic words of poof poof piffles, make me just as small as sniffles .".

New World Computing closed after the production of Heroes of Might and Magic IV, and since then the rights to the franchise have been owned by Ubisoft.

His father smuggled him out of prison and allowed him to live under an invisibility cloak, guarded by Winky, and how Ministry of Magic worker Bertha Jorkins discovered him and ultimately was relieved of her information by Voldemort, who then returned to find Crouch Jr in his father's house.

Krukowski and Yang continued to record under the moniker Pierre Etoile, and then Damon and Naomi ( whose first two releases were also produced by Kramer ), and as members of Magic Hour.

Further, the game is designed to promote balanced leveling, as the saved game on the disk will only let the levels for the attributes go as high as whatever is set the lowest ( e. g. if Life is at 5 and Strength is at 4, but Magic is at 1, then the saved game will reflect all as level 1 ), while still saving the data regarding crystals that have been placed and items that have been collected.

The Elders then place Paige in charge of Magic School as the new headmistress once they realize how deep her dedication runs.

The Invisibles then go back to Dulce to steal a powerful substance called “ Magic Mirror ” from the Outer Church in an arc titled " Black Science 2.

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

" Rob Coleman, who was the lead on the Industrial Light & Magic animation team, warned Lucas that the team thought Jar Jar's character came across poorly.

An example of divination or fortune-telling as purely an item of pop culture, with little or no vestiges of belief in the occult, would be the Magic 8-Ball sold as a toy by Mattel, or Paul II, a cephalopod of the Sea Life Aquarium at Oberhausen used to predict the outcome of matches played by the German national football team.

The team started out the season by losing its first 17 games, including a blowout 138 – 91, to Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers, at the time an NBA record.

The Orlando Magic are a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida.

A contest sponsored by Orlando Magic team officials and the local Orlando Sentinel newspaper allowed the community to suggest names for their new franchise.

With the combination of O ' Neal and Hardaway, the Magic became a dominant team in the NBA, compiling the first 50 win season in franchise history with a 50 – 32 record.

Orlando Magic compiled a 57 – 25 record, best in the East and winning the Atlantic Division title, becoming the second-fastest team to advance to the NBA Finals in league history.

Gabriel dismantled the previous team trading their only remaining superstar Anfernee Hardaway to the Phoenix Suns for Danny Manning ( who never donned a Magic uniform ), Pat Garrity, and two future draft picks.

McGrady, discontent with the Magic, wished to move on ; Weisbrod accused McGrady of " slacking off " and not attending practices ( McGrady later admitted that he did not give 100 % percent during the 2003 – 2004 season and wanted the team to bring him some help, but never wanted to leave Orlando ).

At the NBA China Games, the Magic swept the three games in China, twice against the Cleveland Cavaliers and once against the Chinese national team in games held in Shanghai and in Macau.

After trading for Rafer Alston, the Magic finished the regular season with a 59-23 record, it was the most games the team had won in a season since the 1995 – 96 season in which they had 60 wins.

Despite Nelson's return to the team for the Finals, the Lakers won the series and the championship by beating the Magic in five games.

The blue away uniforms had a white Magic logo ( the team dropped the city name for the road uniform ) and numbers with black trim.

* Until recently, the Magic had a team rule that prohibited the wearing of headbands by its players during games ; this is a rule similar to the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz.

The Magic were also the only NBA team to wear black sneakers and socks in all their games, a tradition that began upon the hiring of Stan Van Gundy in 2007 ; however they wore white sneakers and socks at home in all of the 2008 – 09 season and early in the 2009 – 10 season before switching back to black sneakers and socks.

Up until the current uniform revision, Bo Outlaw had been the only Magic player to have worn all of the Magic jersey designs, and during 2005 – 2006 " Hardwood Classics ," he was the only player on the roster to wear the home pinstriped jersey when it was still the current uniform, having joined the team in 1997 ( last season of the original pinstripe uniform ).

Additionally, the Hornets were the first NBA team to popularize the use of pinstripes on uniforms, inspiring similar designs by the Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers.

He quickly faced what appeared to be a setback for the franchise, as Grant Hill elected to leave the team for the Orlando Magic.