Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...together. They corral Dylan into playing Hammond organ on an extraordinary new tune, Hawkmoon 269, and press him into harmony-singing and lyric-writing service on Love Rescue Me, a high point not only for the band but also for their informal spiritual adviser. The Edge, the band's wizard guitar player, contributes a lilting, spooky piece of folk inspiration, Van Diemen's Land, and the whole group works out at Sun Studios in Memphis, where Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis cut some of their best sides. It is a deliberate pilgrimage, of course, but Angel of Harlem...
...manage the buyout's junk-bond financing. KKR contends that only Drexel has the savvy to sell the record $5 billion in high-yield bonds that is needed. But RJR Nabisco's managers are concerned that the buyout could be jeopardized if Drexel and Michael Milken, its junk-bond wizard, are indicted for securities fraud, which is expected to occur soon...
...young computer wizard, who worked at Harvard's Aiken Computation Labs as late as this summer, also proved that current computer networks are designed so that one computer can easily be used to break through its own security...
Friends of Morris at Harvard have said that the young computer wizard, fatigued from lack of sleep, made an error in his program that caused the virus to run amok, crippling literally thousands of mainframe computer systems...
...alternatives, never settling for the obvious." McFerrin, 38, has been a musician for all his professional life and a singer for more than a decade. From his first big-time gig, playing piano in the Ice Follies band, to his current in-concert, one-man musical parody of The Wizard of Oz, he has never settled for anything less than unique...