Along the way, Carter travels around the country, finds his fame, falls in love (once with a beautiful redhead, once with a sharp-tongued blind girl), battles a rival magician named Mysterioso, and learns the somewhat metaphysical pleasure of creating a stage illusion.
Once again, a masked dancer posing as Jackson was used as a stage illusion, this time to the transition between "Thriller" and "Beat It".
Meanwhile, the closer one looks at the details of the Paris accord, the more the latter resembles a stage illusion -- a hollow shell carefully constructed to resemble something solid.
From the Dangerous Tour onwards, half the song was always performed by a masked backup dancer as Jackson prepared for his next song as part of a stage illusion.
Consciousness is like a stage illusion.
The arrival of the check pulls the masks away: all of this is illusion, a staged drama.
In the mix, I can move voices around to give the illusion of a staged performance".
They know what goes into creating a sustained stage illusion,… Never give an artist an assignment.
They know what goes into creating a sustained stage illusion, and how to make a scene partner give and then give some more.
They know what goes into creating a sustained stage illusion,… Historians generally agree that the single figure bridging America's creation and near-dissolution is John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), who before his eighth birthday heard cannon fire… Living with a Wild God, by Barbara Ehrenreich (Twelve).
Last week's appearance — perhaps "apparition" is a better word — of Tupac onstage more than 15 years after he was fatally shot was created using an old-fashioned stage illusion known as "Pepper's Ghost".
