Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lost Farm" is painted on the mailbox at Will Hapgood's place in Bolton, Mass. and if you aren't trying to reach his property you may well be lost. The road is not a main thoroughfare in town. When we parked and walked towards the house, a short, wizard-like figure dressed in blue jeans, hiking boots and a T-shirt hailed us from where he was working in the garage. "Y'all come in your Volkswagens?" he shouted. That was Will...
...Kassar's hesitancy was understandable. He wouldn't want anything to disrupt his profitable CIA-assisted drug and arms business. Presumably he was also worried because West German police had just raided the Popular Front hideouts around Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Among those arrested: the Jordanian technical wizard and bombmaker Marwan Khreesat...
...cited not just Pat Buchanan, not just George Bush, but also the Arkansas governor. "Clinton's talking about workfare instead of welfare," said the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard...
...become a familiar figure on Oscar night, both because this was his seventh Academy Award and because he is a towering gent with lank white hair and a serene face. That picture -- of a modern Merlin holding a gold totem -- is appropriate, for Muren, 45, is a wizard in the movie craft of computer graphics. In the bland ILM barracks in San Rafael, Calif., he and his merry alchemists wave a little wand over their Silicon Graphics VGX 340 terminals, and out comes the magic...
...when he arrived at Chrysler from Ford following his own bitter ouster by Henry Ford II. The first heir apparent was Harold Sperlich, who preceded Iacocca from Ford and developed the K-car line of compact autos that kept Chrysler alive in the early 1980s. Then came financial wizard Gerald Greenwald, also from Ford, in 1979. As Sperlich faded, Greenwald rose to become vice chairman. Just as he was approaching the throne, however, Iacocca plucked another Ford star in 1986, when he hired Lutz as executive vice president...