mystifier

Yesterday was not the mystifier's first adventure in sensory deprivation.

Indeed, he prefers to call himself a "master mystifier," rather than a magician.

It was the famous mystifier's method of going through a brick wall constructed on a stage.

This is a relatively old mystifier.

Geller used to call his abilities "psychic" but now prefers to refer to himself as a "mystifier" and entertainer.

The point of all of this is that Niki is an excellent self-publicist and a determined mystifier.

Busts of the Master Mystifier, as Houdini was known, are said to carry a particularly peculiar significance.

Mystifier - "Give the Human Devil His Due"

It means that I don't say 'it's supernatural', I say 'I'm a mystifier!'

Spray on Portico The Mystifier Body Spray (left; $20).

"Ingres was the great mystifier," says Mr. Thiebaud, standing before Ingres's portrait of Mme.

Mystifier (2003; CD; Sulphur Sonic Records)

Also in this alcove is a diorama by Hector Perez Lozano, who is a conventional Surrealist mystifier but skilled in up-to-date technology.

The Mystifier shows Coffin Joe horrific visions of human depravity, suffering, and perversion, as well as a female figure of Coffin Joe's death.

There he is met by a figure called the Mystifier (José Celso Martinez Corrêa), who takes him to an arid, surreal landscape called Purgatory.

There, members of the Society of American Magicians, of which the Master Mystifier was once president, would re-create part of his funeral ceremony and break the magician's wooden wand.

I don't mean art should be as clear as the instructions on a packet of seeds; I'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know he's deliberately choosing not to be lucid.

Yet to-day, if a mystifier lack the ingenuity to invent a new and startling stunt, he can safely fall back upon a trick that has been the favorite of pressagents the world over in all ages.

In an article in 2000 in The Mystifier, a publication of the Houdini Historical Center in Appleton, Wis., Dr. Young called the Harlem address "worthy of the Handcuff King."

Phenomenon was a competition show judged by mystifier Uri Geller and illusionist Criss Angel and hosted by Tim Vincent which debuted live on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 on NBC.

The cardinal is not the man to forget a mystification until he has settled account with the mystifier; and the mystifier appears to me to have the air of being a certain young Gascon of my acquaintance."

He, along with 9 other contestants, competed over a series of 5 weeks on live network television, and he was unanimously voted by mentalist Uri Geller, illusionist Criss Angel, and the American public as the number 1 mystifier in the world.

Maurice Richardson in The Observer (22 September 1974) described Hastings as, "so dumb at times he makes Watson look like Leibnitz", and concluded, "Many date from an early period before she found herself as a Mystifier, but all communicate that unique Christie euphoria."

Thousands of New Yorkers, some skeptical, some spellbound, turned out yesterday to gape at the unlikely image of a man standing in a giant ice cube, as David Blaine, a 27-year-old self-described "mystifier," entered his second day encased in an increasingly soggy six-ton block of ice.

In December 1988, the Pope himself, two months after the Italian publication of "Foucault's Pendulum," condemned Eco before an audience of 5,000 pilgrims as "the mystifier deluxe," telling the pilgrims that human life "does not move inevitably toward death and nothingness" - a phrase taken almost verbatim from the "Pendulum."