Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Difford and Glenn Tillbrook join forces on the songwriting, as in days of yore. Although the group had waited until 1983 to break up, it effectively lost its bearings after Argybargy in 1980, when keyboard wizard Julien "Jools" Holland decided to pack...
...tracks: a coruscating jazz version of Sun City by Davis, Keyboardist Herbie Hancock, Bass Player Ron Carter and Drummer Tony Williams; a free-flowing political, rhythmic stream of consciousness by Ray Barretto, Peter Wolf, Rapper Grandmaster Melle Mel and Soweto's Malopoets; and a meditation by Progressive Rock Wizard Peter Gabriel...
Livestock? "You know, like in the Wizard of Oz? Feathers everywhere. Pigs impaled on trees...
...sure no reverse discrimination exists; but when does a hurricane become female and when does it become male? How can weather-casters tell if a hurricane is a boy or a girl? And how do they know when Tropical Storm Bob becomes Hurricane Bob, Tornado Bob, Cyclone Bob, or Wizard of Oz House Removal and Destruction Storm...
...cacophony of today's voices, Kanfer, a senior editor of TIME, invents some delightful ones of his own: an aging sleight-of-hand artist called the Wizard, who sets up a fake country; an oil-rich emir who produces a TV sitcom to sell his political message with reworked Borscht Belt shtick; a splendidly confused interpreter who adores women's legs and finds his paradise among the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Serious evil--the garage sale of the title --lurks here too, and the hero, a TV newsman, finds, as so many innocent investigators do these days, that...