Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written his master's thesis at the College of William and Mary on nuclear weapons, and had twice been rejected for a job with the CIA, was merely trying to trade information with the Soviets in hopes of enhancing his self-image as a strategic weapons wizard. The case, said one investigator, is "bizarre...
Conservatives generally are a lot more tough-minded than their counterparts on the left. Unlike the liberals who silently fumed at Jimmy Carter, Helms and his allies are always on the attack, even against their leader in the White House. Says Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail wizard who has raised large sums of money for Helms: "Never again will conservatives lay down for a Republican President, like they did for Nixon and Ford...
...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
...MERLIN--the real central character of this film--Nicol Williamson thoroughly enjoys himself, savoring his every line with a sly insouciance. With an amazing array of inflections and twitches. Williamson makes his wizard a peculiar combination of magician, clown, and guardian angel. His consistent brilliance gives the film its only consistency...
...pose deeper problems, and offer more radical solutions. Of Morgana, mistress of mandrake and sulfur, Mirren makes an armored, camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest and most sacred words in any world, incarcerating the wizard in a cocoon of cotton candy as she proclaims victory over her mentor, Mirren convinces that she could charm a kingdom-or a film- with her perfidy...