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...this Olympic year could establish him as the best all-event male Alpine skier since Jean-Claude Killy. Not the best male Alpine skier, without qualification, over this period; that would be Sweden's astonishing Ingemar Stenmark, still campaigning at 31, a self-invented slalom and giant slalom wizard who has won more World Cup races (85) than any other man. But Stenmark does not like downhills, and he won't run these down-in- flames plunges. He won golds in slalom and giant slalom at the Lake Placid Olympics in 1980, then was banned from Sarajevo because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirmin Zurbriggen: Super-Z Zips and Zaps Them All | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

Just as unstuffy is Icahn's partner, Alfred Kingsley, a burly analytical wizard whose tiny office is buried in financial documents. "I know exactly where everything is -- unless somebody moves the paper. Then there'll be a crisis." Somehow Icahn's operation remains efficient despite the increasingly complicated latticework of his investments. Icahn raises money through an array of partnerships bearing such names as Aero Limited, Crane, Pelican and Condor. He changes the titles frequently so that his competitors cannot easily follow his activities in the market. To play, new investors must kick in a minimum of $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tougher Than the Rest | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Schelkun subsequently spent two years studying with another healer in the Philippines, and now practices his arts in Marin County. A burly, mustachioed man who likes to wear pink oxford-cloth button-down shirts, Schelkun hardly looks like a wizard. "I don't see disease written on a body with flashing neon lights saying 'Here! Here! Here!' " he says. "I place my hands to connect them to their healing source. My hands are able to feel hot spots, cold spots, pain and symptoms of problems in the body. We're not rocks. We're taught in this society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...college pinball wizard. I'd be a valuable addition to the Adams House intramural pinball team, if there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Video Games Killed the Pinball Star | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...only memorable scene in the film is Billy Crystal's hilarious portrayal of Miracle Max, the wizard who has been fired from his royal position. Max helps bring the movie's hero back from the dead with a chocolate-covered pill, but Crystal's cameo is a diamond which sparkles in an otherwise unremarkable film...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Refried Bride | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

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