Given the popularity of Siegfried and Roy, the reality of their performance is probably more entertaining than this 3-D cinematic illusion.

Central to the collective was its so-called "vow of chastity," 10 rules that were devised to strip away cinematic illusion.

Over four generations, a family shifts its allegiance from religious to cinematic illusions.

Thus the cinematic illusion depends absolutely and unconditionally on the unwavering suspension of disbelief.

Now, with the help of cinematic illusion, Ms. Sweete goes Mr. Sellars one better.

Similar cinematic illusions once allowed many people to believe that African-Americans were content to be servants and that strong-minded women wanted nothing more than to decorate their menfolk's lives.

religious to cinematic illusions.

Over four generations, an American family transfers its allegiance from religious to cinematic illusions in this novel that tracks the national quest for an improved reality.

And American audiences, well versed in the technology of cinematic illusion, may have difficulty understanding why a contemporary movie would require a suicidal fall down a flight of concrete stairs.

Unfortunately, such generational solidarity was only a cinematic illusion.