S 91 "You want to disappear, Mr. James -- shazam. I personally sprinkle you with pixie dust." -- Chuck Logan, The Big Law (1998) "[J]ust like that, poof, click, do you hear me snapping my fingers, shazam, obliteration, nothingness, the void." -- Gerald Locklin, Candy Bars (2000) • Disbelief "Dex couldn't believe what he was seeing. His jaw dropped. 'Shazam!'" -- Kevin J. Anderson, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) • Eureka -- David T. MacFarland, Future Radio Programming Strategies (1997) "[T]he lucky scientist who finds [a self-replicating molecule in the laboratory] would be able to cry, 'Shazam! I have created life!'" -- Christopher Wills, The Spark of Life (2000) "Theories abound on how life began, but I cling happily to the one in which a bolt of lightning strikes a soup of chemicals sloshing about in the hollow of a primordial rock. shazam! A microscopic dot of life is created. Call it Elmer." -- Arthur Watterson Hoppe, Having a Wonderful Time (1995) • Explosion, flash of light "[M]y mate got struck down in a thunderstorm . . . a bizarre accident . . . a bolt from the blue, zig-zagged right on to the perforated snout of his Mickey Mouse gas mask. He was delivering five of them at the bacteriological research children's party -- entering into the spirit of it -- when, shazam! -- it was an electrifying moment, left his nose looking more like Donald Duck and his ears like they popped out of a toaster." -- Tom Stop- pard, Dogg's Hamlet (1980) "Shazam! Out of nowhere, just like that: detonation of the dream deferred." -- Kathryn Bertine, All the Sundays Yet to Come (200 ) "You will also need changes in a flash, Shazam! or in a shower of sparks!" -- Carol Emshwiller, Verging on the Pertinent (1989) • Flash of insight "[Creativity is characterized] as the 'shazzam!' or flash of insight that leads to novel and valuable products and services." -- Cameron M. Ford, Creative Action in Organizations (1995) • Inspiration, enlightenment "[Brian Wilson] was out to move the very soul of teenage America, to create music so passionate, so majestic that when you turned on your radio -- shazam -- Instant Epiphany. And inspiration was everywhere." -- Nick Kent, The Dark Stuff (1994) "Shazam! Suddenly, lights go on and bells begin to clang." -- Donald Lussier, Job Search Secrets (1998) • Instantly "Babadahs puts the mala on you right off and -- Shazzam! you're a Swami." -- Michael Aaron Rockland, A Bliss Case (1989) "Then, shazam, they put out to sea." -- Tom Clancy, Executive Orders (1996) "[T]hrow a steak in there and, shazam! an instant and ferocious fight." -- Raymond Coppinger, Dogs (2002)