Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a week Bliss meets with his chief assistants, a quartet his secretary calls the "four Js: Joan, Joe, John and Jimmy." With their surnames attached they are known as Joan Ingpen, the scheduling wizard; Joseph Volpe, overseer of backstage activities; John Dexter, the production adviser; and James Levine. That weekly meeting enables Bliss to get the view from all four sides of the big house. "Sometimes," he observes, "an artistic decision will create a technical problem or a box office or funding problem. When you choose a new production, you also have to ask the question: Is this...
...dose of marshmallows, created the Apple II. He worked from some pre-existing technology, scaling it down radically and making it affordable to consumers as well as corporations. "Steve didn't do one circuit, design or piece of code," says Wozniak, who was widely regarded as the true technological wizard in Jobs' corporate Oz. "He's not really been into computers, and to this day he has never gone through a computer manual. But it never crossed my mind to sell computers. It was Steve who said, 'Let's hold them up in the air and sell...
Felix Rohatyn, the Wall Street wizard who helped rescue New York City, is gaining advocates for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, reminiscent of the one nation's Franklin D. Roosevelt used. Rohatyn's idea is to rebuild the nation's antiquated private industrial base and public facilities. The problem, says Rohatyn, "is whether the ideas can catch up with the realities before disaster...
...fairy-tale characters which the unicorn meets show the same lack of inspiration. Schmedrick the nincompoop wizard, dressed like most eccentric magicians, rescues the unicorn from the evil magical captivity of Madame Fortuna, dressed like most short, ugly witchlike hags...
BOSTON--Thje imperial wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan sowed yesterday to assemble robed Klansmen in downtown Boston to protest official reaction to his assault on live television...