10 MAGIC WORDS • Mirage -- Victoria Newhouse, Towards a New Museum (1998) -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminist Genealogies (1996) • Misdirection -- Philip Gerard, Secret Soldiers (2002) • Mystifying logic -- Terry Eagleton, The Ideology of the Aesthetic (1990) -- Neil Hertz, "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria Under Political Pressure" (198 ) • Now; the present moment -- W.S. Merwin, Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen (1978) "Where is this now / when now you see it / now you don't?" -- Frank Zane, "The Present," Mind, Body, Spirit (1997) • On-again-off-again -- David Wiltse, Heartland (2002) • One-step forward, two-steps back -- Theodore M. Vestal, Ethiopia: A Post-Cold War African State (1999) • Paradigm shift; Gestalt switch "[I]t is impossible to embrace a new paradigm until the old one has been relinquished. The perceptual shift is rather like the Gestalt switch -- the 'now you see it now you don't' principle -- which operates in the percep tion of visual illusions, and must occur all at once. Hence all important advances are sudden insights, or new ways of seeing." -- Helen Graham, Complementary Therapies in Context: the Psychology of Healing (1999) • Paradox -- Joel S. Migdal, Boundaries and Belonging (2004) • Passing quickly "[It was] described on official stationery from headquarters which Sullivan passed (now-you-see-it, now-you-don't) quickly before her eyes." -- Maureen Howard, Natural History (1999) "Her pale green eyes and now-you-see-it-now-you-don't smile hinted at an easily amused nature." -- Elizabeth Bevarly, Her Man Friday (1999) • Peekaboo -- Patricia Spyer, Border Fetishisms (1998) -- Lynn Turgeon, Bastard Keynesianism: The Evolution of Economic Thinking and Policy-Making Since World War II (1997) • Seasonal operation -- Tim Hollis, Florida's Miracle Strip (2004) • Shifting ambiguity -- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City (2001) • Short glimpses -- Malcom Bradbury, To the Hermitage (2001)