Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ingmar Bergman's classic comedy about mismatched lovers, Smiles of a Summer Night. Perhaps to avoid potentially odious comparisons, Prince has switched the setting from Sweden to turn-of-the-century Vienna, but he might as well have shot the film in a Burbank TV studio. A wizard of stagecraft, he seems to freeze behind the camera. Since the photography is usually static and the editing monotonous, the lyrical flow of the original production evaporates completely. The movie's arty opening and closing scenes, which suggest that we are watching a play within a film, only underscore Prince...
...took a giant among tall men to spearhead the stretch drive, and junior playmaking wizard Glenn Fine did the job, leading the Ivies in assists while earning a second-team All-Ivy berth with tenacious (52 steals worth) play...
...Wizard of Oz lives 110 stories above the ground, on a bridge connecting the twin towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center. The Beatles-or pretty good substitutes-are alive, well and together in a corn-belt Shangri-la called Heartland, U.S.A. The Age of Aquarius has dawned again in Central Park, and the hippies are back selling their gospel of love and kindness. And down at the high school they are wearing pegged pants and leather jackets, as John Travolta, the heartthrob of the '70s, gives a belated tour...
...these new music makers like to think they are keeping the spirit of the old MGM musicals like The Wizard of Oz. "One of the things that made an MGM musical work," says Edwards, "was that they created towns filled with happy people who happened to possess musical skills. That fantasy still endures...
Last week Byrd revealed to TIME Correspondent Neil Mac-Neil that it was a top Klan official who first encouraged him to run for Congress. Said Byrd: "I know it will hurt me, but I want to tell the story in full." Byrd wrote to the Imperial Wizard of the Klan in 1942, asking to join...