| Finally, stripped to brown trunks and a white shirt, Houdini made his entrance in the pool area. |
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| Harry Houdini is known as the world's greatest escapologist, but he fostered a reputation for invulnerability that proved to be fatal. |
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| Now a new film based on the life of Harry Houdini is set to tell the fictional tale of how the escapologist fell in love with an Edinburgh woman. |
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| Among the myths exposed along the way is the idea that Houdini, great escapologist though he was, could do magic. |
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| Harry Houdini was such a great escapologist that even his friends, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, believed he must have had supernatural help. |
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| The eldest son reinvents himself as Harry, after Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist, whose feats are recorded in a book he finds. |
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| At least if we were all locked in, we presumably didn't have to be Houdini to get out. |
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| Depicting a confident Houdini at the peak of his career, the stamp is based on a 1911 lithographed poster. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, Houdini is not thought to have died on stage while performing his Water Torture Cell escape. |
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| Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person. |
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| Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. |
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| Houdini could get out of a glass box full of water in a couple of minutes, even chained up and in a straitjacket. |
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| I rather agree with Houdini who had done spiritualistic stunts during his early career. |
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| Mascara is the great Houdini of the make-up world, transforming lashes from sparse and stumpy to luxurious and lovely. |
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| And he's a regular Houdini. He can get out of that thing in just a few minutes. |
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| I wonder if they'll let me do a Houdini and board the plane in a straitjacket and watertank? |
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| Any creature captured then put on public exhibition will do a Houdini and terrorize the town. |
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| Elizabeth's BFF constantly pulls a Houdini, disappearing on some adventure or another. |
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| Houdini was a publicity-wise escapologist and illusionist who made his name and a good deal of money in America. |
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| Previously for the Segal, Greg appeared in The Tempest and Amadeus as well as being the magic consultant for Houdini. |
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| He killed five men and married five women, conned al capone, and traded card tricks with Houdini. |
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| The latest productions of the Americans had raised more questions than wild enthusiasm. Long gone was the time of Houdini! |
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| The Houdini postage stamp is now on sale, as I announced last week. |
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| At the age of 17 he met the great escapologist Harry Houdini. |
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| He followed that with leading roles in Old Wicked Songs, On Second Ave, The Great Houdini, Pirates of Penzance, and several others. |
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| His successful move from Northern Ireland politics to representing Munster and Fine Gael in the European Parliament was quite simply a Houdini act. |
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| James Randi first rose to fame as The Amazing Randi, performing magic and escapes in the tradition of Houdini. |
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| Even a century after his heyday, Houdini has maintained the same mystique he enjoyed while living. |
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| A panel in the trunk was removed to let Houdini swap places with an assistant. |
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| He distinctly remembers a new magic store that was literally giving away Houdini artifacts to get people in the door. |
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| A royal walk has been set out though the city, which takes you past the birthplace of a different kind of king: the famous escape artist Houdini. |
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| Houdini himself would have been amused, spooked, titillated and entertained! |
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| In the quinta in which they are staying, Harry discovers a book about Houdini and decides to train to become an escape artist. |
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| They adopt new identities and the boy names himself Harry after his hero Houdini. |
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| Get a Piece of Houdini Before He Disappears By Nina Strochlic A death-defying magical box. |
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| In Blois the cathedral is real a must-go, as is the museum of the great magician Houdini. |
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| Instead, Houdini engaged his audience emotionally, by playing to their hopes and fears. |
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| Holly is thrilled to be at the Segal once again, last seen in their production, Houdini. |
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| To escape from a straight jacket always creates a sensation and startles an audience. People associate this escape with Houdini! |
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| You'll recall that last summer the Segal Centre and The Montreal International Jazz Festival co-produced Houdini at the Outremont Theatre. |
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| Ernst, in which Houdini performed an impressive trick at his home in the presence of Conan Doyle. |
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| But, having made it, they too risk losing face if they allow it to unravel. Can we see you do that again? Houdini performed his trick for startled audiences over and over again. |
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| Typically with these, by the time the first vehicle leaves the production line, some of the goodies shown have done a Harry Houdini and disappeared. |
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| I should not want President Prodi too, like a clever magician, like a modern European Houdini, to succeed in making the funds at the disposal of all European citizens vanish. |
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| Co-produced with The Montreal Highlights Festival and sponsored by Ernst and Young, Houdini showcases over twenty actors and six live musicians on stage and is a featured event in this year's Festival. |
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| While Donnelly's untimely gopher ball necessitated Erstad's last-minute Houdini act, the Angels' lineup provided no margin for error. |
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| The Episodes star will play the writer alongside House actor Michael Weston as magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. |
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| The story will recast Houdini as an investigator of the world of the occult in addition to being a master escape artist. |
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| The special effects were constructed by the Martinka Magic Company, which was later owned by Houdini. |
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| Houdini was apparently unable to convince Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two. |
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| Mr Alamiesegha's skills in escapology would impress Houdini. |
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| Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes. |
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| Next, in a feat worthy of escape artist Harry Houdini, she edged along a wall and climbed a waste pipe to land in a recycling box. |
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| Is Roeder a Houdini, Peter Pan, Paul McKenna and Bill Shankly all packaged in one bespectacled, unexcitable, ultra cool inspiration? |
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| By this time Houdini had established himself as an expert debunker of nonsense and was asked to sit on the committee. |
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| The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, based at the University of London, is the UK's largest of its kind and contains letters between Price and the legendary illusionist Houdini. |
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| Where the Sheffield act's lukewarm stadium filling schlock seems forced, Houdini Dax are, for the most part, effortless fun. |
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| The auction comes at a particularly zeitgeisty moment for Houdini. |
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| Abacus gets no help from his parents to stop the Professor and his one support is Houdini, an albino lemming, whom he had rescued from disemboweling by the Professor. |
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| There's Ellie the German Shepherd who has escape artist skills to rival Houdini, plus Springer Spaniel Ozzy who mysteriously shakes and collapses. |
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