Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wizard's brew from the magical duo Dead Can Dance...
...Martin Davis, the embattled chairman of Paramount Communications, these are soul-trying times. Just four months ago, Davis engineered a merger agreement with MTV-owner Viacom Inc. that would have made him chief executive of one of the world's media giants. But Hollywood wizard Barry Diller, who now chairs the QVC home-shopping network, crashed in with a hostile bid for Paramount that triggered the first major takeover battle of the 1990s. Paramount directors spurned Diller at first but endorsed his bid in December after Delaware court rulings compelled them to entertain all offers. The board last week reaffirmed...
...nearby women's college. His mother, who educated him at home until he was nine, wrote plays, which were performed at a small theater the couple started in an oak grove on their farm. "When Francis was seven," his father recalls, "he wrote a full script for The Wizard of Oz and directed its performance." He played bluegrass and Bach on the pump organ and guitar, and he would spend hours pondering the consequences of dividing numbers by zero...
...Audience members can sing along or swat drum pads and see their images recorded and played back at them, mixed, enhanced and amplified in a potentially infinite variety of ways by Rundgren. There is no set list or running order, no lighting or sound technician; Rundgren, a New Age Wizard of Oz, does...
Another stunning new feature is the Microsoft Wizards, a set of step-by-step guides which were first implemented in Microsoft's spreadsheet product, Excel. The wizards are used to create special documents. For example, to produce a standard resume, you can pick the resume wizard and it will prompt you for personal information. Whiz! Bang! An nice-looking resume is created...