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...Munchkins are street kids who were imprisoned in a wall of graffiti. The Wicked Witch of the West runs a sweatshop. The Cowardly Lion is one of the two statues that guard the front of the New York Public Library. The Emerald City is the World Trade Center, and Director Sidney Lumet has staged extravagant dances at the towers' base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Yellow Brick Road to Profit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...cruise ships in service. Since a first-class liner costs at least $75 million to build from scratch, fleet owners customarily renovate aged vessels, packing them with tiny staterooms. The General W.P. Richardson, originally intended to carry troops, is now in its sixth incarnation as Eastern Steamship Lines' Emerald Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom in Sunshine Cruises | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted the BBC's invitation to appear in a TV parody of The Wizard of Oz. Decked out in a red cape and his own extravagant eyebrows, Healey plunks Over the Rainbow on a piano and hams it up with the denizens of Emerald City. At the end of his appearance, he called for contributions to the IMF-the International Magicians' Fund, that is-and beamed: "You just wave a wand and suddenly find your pockets stuffed with money." Now, if only he could get the British economy to do that trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1978 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...artists and writers thrive tax free on the Emerald Isle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Little Bit of Haven | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...Balcony, 1958, or View from the Porch, 1959, one comes to see the coastal suburbs of California in terms of them. Parallels of white curb and bright green lawn, the rising streets and bright evanescent houses, the thickly painted figures with features eroded by light, the sharp eupeptic color-emerald, persimmon, rust, ultramarine: the work was a discovery, a naming. For a time most young painters in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Diebenkorn studied and taught art in the late '40s and '50s, tried to do it, or something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: California in Eupeptic Color | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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