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Word: wizard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very good man. I'm just a very bad wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Wizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...Angeles, the Magic Castle, an eleven-year-old theater-restaurant devoted to the art and craft of legerdemain, is enjoying its most successful year. Says Resident Card Wizard Charles Miller, "Magic is surging; the rewards are better both financially and what you might call soul filling. Even the oldtimers are better." In North Hollywood, Magician Mark Wilson employs a full-time staff of 20 to devise and build special effects to astound audiences at conventions and trade shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Warner LeRoy was four years old when his father Mervyn produced the movie The Wizard of Oz. Ever since, Warner's life has been filled with dreams and a need for the spectacular, and indulging them has proved profitable. LeRoy's latest dream fulfillment is Great Adventure, a 1,500-acre amusement park that opened this month in New Jersey featuring 2,000 animals (including a herd of elephants), chariot races, and one of the world's highest Ferris wheels (150 ft.). LeRoy has already shouldered Hardwicke Companies Inc., a firm in which he is a major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: EYECATCHERS | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...grossly unfair to lump rock's wizard, Todd Rundgren, with such untalented transvestites as the New York Dolls, just because he wears brocade, sequins, mascara and rouge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1974 | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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