Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...N.B.A., Earvin ("Magic") Johnson's skill with a basketball was matched only by his leadership. Johnson fronted the Los Angeles Lakers' "Showtime" offense, directing the team to the N.B.A. finals nine times in 13 seasons, winning five championships. He was the league MVP three times. After learning he was HIV positive, Johnson became a forceful advocate for AIDS education and raised millions for research. The man gets things done...
...businessman, Johnson is showing the same kind of all-star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...
...company, Johnson Development, also owns and develops shopping centers in "underserved" areas (meaning, no conventional company wants to invest there) of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Magic is elevating his game too. Backed by a $150 million commitment from the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest pension fund, Johnson plans to extend his real estate empire to poor communities in the rest of California and elsewhere...
...Timothy Childs. "My heart was cut in half," says Joanna, whose parents have threatened to sue for breach of promise if their daughter doesn't open on Broadway. Andrea McArdle, the original Annie, has sided with Joanna. "These are sick people acting desperately," says McArdle. "They expected the same magic we had in '77, and now they've made her a scapegoat...
...radio personality whose morning show is now heard in 35 markets around the country and who is probably most famous for--well, it's hard to pick just one thing: for getting female listeners to bare their breasts in his studio, for saying Rodney King deserved his beating and Magic Johnson his HIV virus, for obsessing about the smallness of his penis, for having racked up a record $1.7 million fine from the FCC for uttering words like penis on air in an "indecent" context...