Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business at the beginning." Yet many observers wonder whether Americans will spend up to $30 to own their personal copy of a film that they will view only once or twice. Says Richard Ekstract, publisher of Video Review magazine: "You can watch Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz more than two or three times. But for most of the stuff out there, it is not worth wasting your time...
...There was the Rodent--one of the most vile and obnoxious creatures ever to crawl the streets of Ithaca. He wore the same football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really caught on to his students' indifference and absence...
DIED. E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, 82, song lyricist who wrote the witty, often wistful words to the movie musical The Wizard of Oz and to Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative...
Many protest leaders, including Greene, describe the IRS as omnipotent. Says the California tax rebel: "These bastards have so much power they can take innocent citizens and screw them to the wall." The truth is, though, that the IRS's enforcement power has deteriorated. Like the Wizard of Oz, who hid his timidity behind a screen, the IRS tries to disguise its own limited enforcement capabilities by playing up a reputation for toughness...
Until he can do that, Coach Joe Bernal has other plans for his energetic manager's preoccupation with speed. Hugon and Morton, also a computer wizard, are soon to help the staff at Blodgett create faster swimmers by setting up computer programs which can provide instantaneous statistics and analysis from the voluminous records kept on each member of the team...