Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided biases. One Louisiana defendant learned that his lawyer was living with the prosecutor. A Florida man discovered that his public defender was a deputy sheriff. In Georgia, Eddie Lee Ross was defended by a white attorney who referred to Ross as a "nigger" and had been the Imperial Wizard of the local Ku Klux Klan for 50 years. Ross now awaits the electric chair...
...full-length feature presentation, The Sorcerer, begins with the marriage of Alexis (David Smith) to Aline (Giering). Alexis, impassioned by his love for Aline, decides the whole village should be as happily in love as he. He employs the sorcery of Mr. W.C. Wells (Michael Rosenbaum), a professional wizard, to administer a lover potion to all of the villagers...
...Vukonich came to Harvard to play hockey, and then-wizard recruiter and Assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni made no mistake in recruiting the 6-ft., 3-in. 215-lb. standout. Vukonich put on a Crimson uniform in 1987 with the best recruiting class in the country--which also included classmates Peter Ciavaglia, Ted Donato and John Weisbrod...
...work, as there often is about Rubens'. He loved private character and painted the interplay between that character and the public mask with a sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But Van Dyck probably never met Percy, who died...
...vintner is the winery's wizard, responsible for deciding what grapes to plant where, when to harvest, how long to age a wine and in what kind of container. The names and reputations of California's star vintners are as well known to oenophiles as those of celebrity chefs are to ardent foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent...