Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 45 hooded Klansmen and more than a hundred sympathizers cheered and hooted, Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson of Louisiana urged "rebels and yankees to get together" in preparation for "the coming race...
...blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these spectacles takes real showmanship, as evidenced by this excerpt from the horror mag Fangoria's interview with "effects wizard" Tom Savini, as he explains the scalping of a woman in his new shocker, Maniac...
...blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these spectacles takes real showmanship, as evidenced by this excerpt from the horror mag Fangoria's interview with "effects wizard" Tom Savini, as he explains the scalping of a woman in his new shocker, Maniac...
Easyriders is an up-front magazine. As the editor says in his introduction to an interview with David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, "Anyone who has read us for any period of time knows that we're up-front about everything and believe absolutely in freedom on the press. At times we present controversial articles, knowing full well we may catch some flack from someone, somewhere--and we welcome it. We firmly believe in presenting both sides of any issue, and so we will certainly print rebuttals to the following up-front interview...
...does not gloss over his failures, conceding that Newsweek was slow to produce Watergate breakthroughs and that the wizard himself was growing stale and restless in his last years on the job. Apparently he had not completely recovered when he wrote his book. He does narrate many amusing anecdotes. In one, a Nixon aide phones Elliott at home soon after the Watergate break-in on an issue of considerable urgency: changing Julie's magazine subscription. In this work, at least, Elliott chooses not to say much about the nature of his craft, his era or his inner workings. Mostly...