Word: wizard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...because they begrudge nearly everything about Clinton, the Dole campaign has stubbornly refused to organize a communications war room modeled on the Little Rock wonder. After a weeks-long manhunt for a communications wizard, it looks like the job will go to a puckish novelist and an unlikely candidate: Fannie Mae communications chief John Buckley, nephew of William F. Buckley Jr. As Jack Kemp's press secretary during the 1980s, young Buckley made it his daily business to nettle Bob Dole...
...Angeles, where the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz are worshipped, the denizens feasted on such an ephemeral moment. Attorney Ronald Palmieri, whose clients include Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent close to $5,000 on a set of 12 Wedgwood creamware dinner plates that he thinks will spice up interest in his dinner parties. "I would not buy a creamware dinner service for myself," Palmieri explains, "but it's hard to bring the A list to dinner in a party of 12, and this will certainly draw them. With the Kennedys' dinnerware, they will be there...
Since 1939, when Judy Garland first introduced millions of Americans to the wonders of Technicolor, The Wizard of Oz has been an important part of American culture. Uproot the entire story, drop it into the African-American world of the 1970's, and Frank Baum's classic childrens' story becomes "The Wiz," a hip melange of pop culture and fairy tales. This spring's performance shows off a number of excellent and excited performers, but in many ways fails to pull off this complicated and challenging musical...
...crusade, Schwarzkopf has joined forces with an unlikely but powerful ally who has even more reason than the general to be motivated: Michael Milken, the famous junk-bond wizard of the 1980s...
...until a friend developed the malignancy and he started to research the disease in depth that Jaroff learned it is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. To help prepare for this week's cover, he traveled to Santa Monica, California, for a three-hour interview with former junk-bond wizard Michael Milken, whose disease was diagnosed in 1993 and who has pledged $25 million for prostate-cancer research. "Men don't like to talk about or even think about their own health," Jaroff says. "But this is one illness they had better pay attention to, because if it doesn...