Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Teresa rise from her wheelchair, and the two of them emerged from a private conversation holding hands, to be greeted by squealing children in a crowd. Diana, in a cream-colored linen suit, stood over her companion, in her sari, the way Billie Burke dwarfed the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. They were affectionate toward each other, put their faces close to each other. Mother Teresa clasped her palms together in the Indian namaste, signifying both hello and farewell. The princess got into her silver car. And that was that...
Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz, " I had been deceived by the legends of Ivy League education. One professor offered his faux-zebra hide couch for me to sit on. The other, more avuncular professor actually offered me a plate of donuts. My discussions with them, and with the other students in my interview time slots, did not provoke panic or even mild anxiety...
Message to the Macintosh faithful: cuddle up with your PowerBook and see the story that inspired the ad: 1984. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and a ravishing (and oft-ravished) Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, it's surely what was on Bill Gates' mind when he pulled that Wizard of OS routine at MacWorld, looming disembodied over the crowd while Steve Jobs said the words: Microsoft is our ally. Microsoft has always been our ally. Apple is at war with Netscape. Apple has always been at war with Netscape. The utterance may have drawn a few boos from the crowd...
...posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...
...Lake St. Clair. On the east side of Detroit, witnesses said a tornado lifted a house off its foundation and tossed it several feet into an alley. A 38-year-old woman from Mount Morris Township, near Flint, was also killed by a falling tree. "It looked like "The Wizard of Oz,'" said one local resident. The storms blanketed Michigan, Indiana and Ohio with dark, menacing clouds, drenching the region with heavy rains that left some roads flooded up to car windshields...