Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cheryl Pevehouse, 30, the wife of a physician in Columbia, S.C., and mother of three children, is a dedicated discounter who has saved as much as $5,300 on her grocery bills in a good year. She puts out a monthly newsletter called Market Wizard ("cash from trash") that goes to 132,000 subscribers. Like most other discounters, she is middle to upper-middle class. (Poorer consumers tend to go for the greater direct savings on lower-priced no-name brands.) As Janoyan puts it, "It feels like upper-middle-class poor to us. If it weren...
...doubt about it: the man who created this pretty, poignant, funny scene is a wizard. The moment passes, of course; soon the little girls are grinning, trying to point their feet and watch their pals at the same time...
...pace that must seem stately to tots reared on TV cartoons and the current batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish. But as a lavish vehicle for the talents of Effects Wizard Ray Harryhausen, Clash offers delights to the eye and spirit of every moviegoing adult who has wanted to revisit the dreams of his youth...
White imagined Merlin as a wizard who lived backward, progressing from dotage to youth. It was yet another instance of literature anticipating life-as, for example, the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer...
...sure hand and the total recall may make readers wonder if Singer was ever a greenhorn. That he is a wizard, there can be no doubt...