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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY. MARCH 21, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 117 (USPS 650-640)
House rejects Reagan's bid for contra aid
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected President Reagan's appeal for $100 million for the Nicaraguan gubernation battling the Sandinista government, slapping aside his offer to hold back some military aid during a new bid for peace talks.
In a statement read by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, Reagan said the 222-210 defeat must be reversed.
See related stories p. 10.
He wowed to shift his campaign today to the Senate in a bid to salvage the request, which called for $70 million in military assistance and $30 million in non-lethal aid.
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an advertisement for a magic book.
Since reading that first magic book, Klayder has always been doing some magic, but only seriously after he became a KU student.
"I lived in JRP and I did a few card tricks for people, and since that time people would always come up and ask to see a new piece of magic." he said.
For five years he worked as a full-time magician, which included a summer of working as a magician at Silver Dollar City in Missouri. He said he came back to school because he thought he was earning a meager living as a magician.
David Williams, Anthony junior, and the president of the Kansas City chapter of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, has a magic style that fits in somewhere between Armstrong's and Kluyder's.
"I tend to do what is called parlor magic," Williams said. "Not quite the big stuff, but larger than the small stuff."
The tricks in parlor magic, he said, are larger than card and coin tricks. He does tricks using linking rings, balls and umbrellas.
There are weird people in magic, Williams said. One magician shaves his head in a widow's peak just to be different.
But people should not assume this is the norm, he said.
"Magicians come from all walks of life — doctors, lawyers, students, teachers, insurance salesmen — and there's a lot of normal people who like this particular hobby," he said.
"I's nice to know that for at least two days out of the semester my students are really interested in what I'm saying," he said.
On the day before spring break and on the last day of classes, Klayer said, he performs magic tricks in his classes.
Williams said he always carried some sort of magic trick with him.
Always having a trick ready lets him perform whenever he wants to, he said, but it also acts as a reminder that the world could be a better place with the possibility of real magic.
Klayder does the same,
whether it's a coin, a piece of string,
cards or a safety pin.
"I like being able to pretend for a moment that the world is different from the way it is," he said. "And that's really an exciting thing — to think that it's possible for something to disappear or float in the air. It's very intriguing.
"A lot of times when you see a
magic trick you don't realize the key thing behind it, and so you say 'It's magic.' It would be an interesting world if magic were possible."
At the same time, however, people should know that magic really is impossible, and extraordinary acts are nothing more than tricks, he said.
"I know that sounds strange," Khuyder said, "but there are people who believe in witch doctors and voodoo."
But the old-time quack magicians are the basis for the name of Armstrong's magic shop.
Doc Buliwhack's is run out of Armstrong's finished garage. The shop is cramped with magic tables, large tricks and display cases filled with coin and card tricks.
"It was inspired by an old-time magic show in the old-time field." Armstrong said. "I was looking through a bunch of old medicine books and there was one called Doc Tallywhack's or Tallywhacker's or something like that. I just played around with it until eventually Doc Bullwhacker evolved out of that."
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What sort of magic trick a person might buy depends on how much he is willing to spend, he said. Card and coin tricks cost under $10 because not many props are needed. Large stage tricks can cost over $100,000.
Putting on a stage show is an expensive proposition, he said, because the shows have to have a slick appearance, complete with fog and vanishing live animals.
"That's just for the apparatus," Armstrong said. "That's not the cost of moving it from location to location and the crews to run all the stage works."
Most of the shop's sales come from mail orders and the sale of books, but Armstrong still is prepared to demonstrate and sell tricks to anyone who may walk in.
"Anymore, everything's very MTV on stage," he said. "It takes big scale, flashy, showy stuff."
The flashy, expensive magic isn't for everybody, Armstrong said.
"You have to find your own marketplace, and that depends a lot on your personality," he said. "I have a lot of friends who are very comfortable doing card tricks for very small groups of people, but they feel very uncomfortable on the stage. So they do restaurant or cocktail party magic."
The act goes over well at banquets of one to two hundred people. he said.
Since he no longer does the Julia Child drag act, he performs his comedy magic act in a lose-fitting tuxedo and tennis shoes.
Armstrong compared his act to that of Harry Anderson, the magician who also plays the judge on the TV series "Night Court." Anderson's brand of
"geek tricks" are setting a realm for what can be played in comedy magic.
Magicians are moving away from manipulation magic, Armstrong said. That is magic where the magician multiplies balls and pulls cards from the empty air
with music playing in the background and no talking.
"People who come to see a straight magic show without any audience participation, fun er distinctiveness to it can get bored pretty easily," he said.
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