Styles and themes of Jane Austen plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity. Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy. In particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage market. Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of "Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." At first glance, the sentence is straightforward and plausible,
My Baby Must Be a Magician be their final R&B Top Ten hit. "My Baby Must Be a Magician" has never had a high-profile remake; Stiff Records act Sylvia and the Sapphires had a 1983 UK single release produced by Peter Collins. On the title track of Teena Marie's 1981 album "It Must Be Magic" - her last for Motown - Teena Marie repeats the hookline from "My Baby Must Be a Magician": "My baby must be a magician 'cause he's sure got the magic touch", as her song's outro. (Melvin Franklin's original intro is also included in this song.) My Baby Must Be a Magician