Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists driving past the hotel have an average of six collisions a month...
...accountancy, and seems to prefer hamburgers to French cuisine. Even so, Geneen cannot resist comparing himself to Behn: "He was a man of his time; I am a man of my time." Born in Britain 63 years ago, Geneen came to the U.S. at the age of one. A wizard with figures, Geneen began his career as a New York Stock Exchange page and rose from accountant to executive positions in such companies as Bell & Howell, Jones & Laughlin and Raytheon...
Died. Fred Lazarus Jr., 88, retailing wizard who started as a collar salesman in his family's Columbus store and became organizer and, in 1945, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., a coast-to-coast retailing combine that now includes Bloomingdale's of New York, Filene's of Boston, Bullock's of California, and the original F. & R. Lazarus store in Columbus; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
...built out of too much plot and too many characters; they provide quantities of information far beyond anyone's desire to be informed. They are full of technical disquisitions of differential calculus, organic chemistry, the history of film, jazz and rock, dope and Freud, the Holy Grail, rockets, the Wizard of Oz -- all Pynchon metaphors for the twentieth century. It is not that he is groping for the one correct metaphor to one consistent reality. He is compiling as many metaphors as he can for as many realities as he sees...
...when he helped to lead a series of wildcat strikes that forced the West Virginia legislature to vote compensation for black-lung victims. Boyle opposed the effort. Says Miller's press aide Bernard Aronson of the atmosphere they encountered at U.M.W. headquarters: "It was like the Wizard of Oz. There was this screen and a lot of smoke and noise and light coming from up above. When we took the screen away we discovered the real secret: nothing was going on up there at all, just a bunch of guys drawing huge salaries...