Word: magicianly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Prospero, Stern is a magician who confronts unruly influences in a brave new world. The Midwestern Caliban is played by Hartnell, husband of Stern's sister and his most troublesome client -- a "small-town boy made good, gone bad." To see him on the floor of the commodity exchange is to observe a force of nature: "He stepped into the tiered levels of the pits, shaking hands and tossing greetings like Frank Sinatra onstage, commanding the same reverence, or, in some quarters, subverted loathing." When he admits, "I've always wanted to do what other people wouldn't," Stern...
...more than 1 million investors, Peter Lynch was a magician, a modern alchemist who transmuted their modest savings into solid wealth. Since Lynch began running the then tiny Fidelity Magellan fund in 1977, its shares have surged 25-fold in value -- far more than the fourfold gain for the Dow Jones industrial average during the same period or the increase for any other mutual fund. Lynch, 46, built Boston-based Magellan from a $22 million operation into a $13.3 billion monster, the world's biggest and most celebrated fund. And he did it the old-fashioned way, through 13-hour...
...fantastic--he was a magician out there," Harvard forward Ted Donato said. "He kept his end of the bargain, but we didn't keep ours." HARVARD MEN'S HOCKEY (13-12-1 Overall, 12-9-1 ECAC...
...with Death, clowns go ahead and becomeClowns. Oh, yeah, and the non-laughing peoplelaugh. Not because Clowns are always funny. Butbecause it is physically painful for them not togive back to the Clown in the same measure as hehas given to them. Although Magician's know this,Clowns can only sense it.A-10David L. Rettig...
...Then, what use has History been for youCortney the Clown? And what use has the Clowndoctor been? And the Clown Priest? And the ClownPsychologist?" riddled the Magician, as he wentback to painting the horse. Although the Magicianhad loved the former horse, in its process ofbecoming, the horse had changed into somethingelse. Although it was still a horse, it wasanother kind of horse which he was now in lovewith...