The Blaine Act, approved February 17, 1933 by the United States Senate, ended the prohibition of alcohol in the United States that began in 1919 by modifying the Volstead Act to allow so-called "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, 4% by volume). February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Seal of the Senate The Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The National Prohibition Act of 1919, more popularly known as the Volstead Act, enforced the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, dealing with the prohibition of alcohol. ...
Blaine has encased himself in ice for sixty-one hours, stood on a platform 22 inches in diameter and 109 feet high for two days and two nights, and buried himself in a plexiglass coffin for seven days, consuming only four tablespoons of water a day.
There are thus two David Blaines, as there are two sides of magic; one in continuity with modernity and sharing the root impulses that also drive mathematics and science, the other in some kind of opposition to the essentially rational conception of the world that is the result and progenitor of mathematical and scientific inquiry.
Only, Blaine has dispensed, in his challenges, with the normal trappings of magic altogether and thus with the element of irony that is necessary for Penn and Tellers act.
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