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ALLAN
ZOLA KRONZEK
THE MAGICIAN'S TALE
By Sheridan Sansegundo
East Hampton Star
Interview
12345In
the first decade of the new century, we don't raise
an eyebrow at cinematic special effects that would
have stunned and terrified our grandparents. It's
all done with computers, we say with a shrug, blue
screens, body-imaging, miniaturization....
12345But sit us down
in front of a master sleight-of-hand artist and we
are children again, baffled, astonished, and delighted.
One of Allan Zola Kronzek's earliest memories is of
seeing a magician transfer milk in a bottle to a glass
via a thin red ribbon.
12345"It was amazing,
and I was completely fascinated by magic from then
on," he said. If it was the beauty of sleight
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