Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...universe of plenty-as audiences can discover beginning this week in Star Wars, a grand and glorious film that may well be the smash hit of 1977, and certainly is the best movie of the year so far. Star Wars is a combination of Flash Gordon, The Wizard of Oz, the Errol Flynn swashbucklers of the '30s and '40s and almost every western ever screened-not to mention the Hardy...
Died. Alexander L. Guterma, 62, financial wizard who swindled investors out of millions of dollars in the 1950s; along with five members of his family in the crash of his private plane as it approached New York City's La Guardia Airport. An entrepreneur in the Philippines during World War II, he arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican...
...Wizard of Oz had just ended on television, and the news update which followed unveiled news only slightly less fantastic than Dorothy's journey into the land of Oz. "India: The Congress party is trailing badly in the national elections. Both Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, have lost in their bids for parliament...
...jumping, of course, is not your average put-on-a-jockstrap (sorry, that's sexist)-and-let's-get-at-it sport. It's one that requires jumps from upwards of 45 meters, one that most people consider as sane as having a meeting during The Wizard of Oz. (Are you a good witch or a bad witch? I'm a good witch...
...Sweet Wizard. Caldwell's long-time partners, Set Designers Helen Pond and Herbert Senn, have devised one of their loveliest productions-a succession of murals and drops, in blacks, golds and reds, patterned after the finely detailed Palekh lacquered boxes that were fashionable in Russia after the 1917 Revolution. The Canadian bass Victor Braun and the American coloratura Jeanette Scovotti, both of whom work primarily in Europe, made a valiant pair of lovers. John Moulson, a member of East Berlin's Komische Oper, sang the wizard with an uncommonly sweet and powerful tenor. From Pittsburgh Soprano Marianna Christos...