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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...casting of Williams as an unemployed voice-over artist is obviously meant to draw on the publicity he gained as the voice of the Genie in Disney's "Aladdin." In deciding on a persona for the housekeeping job Miranda advertises, he and his make up-wizard brother (Harvey Fierstein) run through a list of accents and outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: Mr. Mom Goes Geriatric | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...AIDS Oratorio, performed by Harvardstudents, and a Gospelfest will be held tomorrow."The Wizard of Aids," a musical parody, will beperformed Thursday...

Author: By Sandra S. Park, | Title: World AIDS Day Events Include Exhibits, Films | 11/30/1993 | See Source »

...combination of Macauley Caulkin and Mr. Wizard, this little girl is supposed to steal the show. She doesn't. The director's attempts at heartwarming scenes between Ryan and Robocop make for gags aplenty...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: New, Not Improved | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...that 94-ft. by 50-ft. rectangle that constitutes a basketball court, there are always 10 players. All things being equal, each player would only have the ball 10% of the time. But Michael Jordan wanted the ball 100% of the time. Without the ball he is a wizard without the wand. Perhaps that is why he likes golf so much. It is the ultimate individual sport. Your only opponents are yourself and that infernal little white ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Fly Away | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...itself the Titan's three-satellite payload -- code-named Pacea -- was not indispensable to current intelligence operations. The solar-powered satellites, each about as big as a midsize car, are part of a continuing surveillance program called Classic Wizard, which is designed to track ships at sea, especially those from the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. If the three satellites had been deployed as planned into a triangle in space, their electronic sensing devices would have calculated the position of ships on the basis of radio and radar transmissions. But the U.S. has two such systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Blowup | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

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