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Word: wizard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT STRAVINSKY'S Rite of Spring did for music, what Gutenberg did for journalism, what the internal combustion engine did for auto racing, Bally's Wizard has now done for pinball. Every so often an entire field of human endeavor is picked up, turned over, and shaken like a dusty carpet--and when the air clears we can say for certain that a part of our lives will never again be the same. And that is what is being said by the small, but ever increasing stream of visitors to the Underdog on Bow Street: visitors who, as often...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: An Elegant Abstraction | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...from five U.S. corporations and billed as "a birthday gift to the American people." The train carried a somewhat indiscriminate array of American artifacts: George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the agreement for the Louisiana Purchase, Will Rogers' lariat, Judy Garland's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's size 16 basketball shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Whither the Freedom Train? | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...game chubby little boys can feel ridiculous playing but that the superstar plays with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...belch, a yawn and a groan, which [is officially transcribed] as a 'cheer,' must have been hard put to know what it signified." Coming through clearly, however, was a cry of "Send him to Europe!" when Labor M.P. Andrew Faulds hailed Wilson as a "wily old wizard" for his recent success in the EEC referendum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Commons Rules the Waves | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Show and Tell | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

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