— In the echo chamber that is the New York art world, where one voice can give the illusion of being many, the crusading cry of late is "We need more painting!" As if there were a dearth.
And for a while, until the euro came into existence and created the illusion of success, many were the cartoons depicting the project as a hapless,flightless bird, related to the ostrich.
Ionescu duly obliged with a venomous diatribe in which he chastised the author he had once praised and encouraged for daring to assert that a Jew could belong to any national community: "It is an assimilationist illusion, it is the illusion of so many Jews who sincerely believe that they are Romanian … Remember that you are Jewish!
That Mr. Gaughan, 68, is not easily found befits an artisan who has spent most of his life creating large-scale illusions for many of the world's most famous magicians and illusionists: Siegfried & Roy, David Blaine, Criss Angel, David Copperfield, Doug Henning, Mark Wilson, Ricky Jay.
SARAH MCLACHLAN "Laws of Illusion" (Nettwerk/Arista) Many of the songs on "Laws of Illusion," Sarah McLachlan's new album, end with her virtually by herself: just her voice and a minimum of accompaniment, alone in a quiet place.
nytimes.com/arts SLIDESHOW: BEHIND THE MAGIC For more than 40 years, John Gaughan has created illusions for many of the world's most famous magicians, such as Siegfried and Roy, David Blaine and others.
However, in order to ensure that the episode felt "camera-real" to preserve the theme of magic and illusions, many of the more intense effects were replaced with more conventional effects.
Surely with the lost illusions of the many who believed in the promises of the Workers Party.
People are prone to illusions and biases of many kinds.
The omniscient, intrusive point of view came to be frowned upon as destructive of the novel's illusion of reality, although many of the great masters of the novel—Henry Fielding, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Honoré de Balzac, and Leo Tolstoy themselves deployed this point of view.
