Word: wizardly
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...simple as his responsibility to shareholders. While he had the jury chuckling along with him at times this week, his haughty lectures on VARs and CDRs (Google them) might not have gone over so well. Lay, a preacher's son from Missouri who went from economics professor to pipeline wizard and mega-millionaire, may be a tougher target. Rotating calmly in his swivel chair at the defense table during Skilling's testimony, he has seemed blithely unconcerned about most of the prosecution's jabs against his co-defendant - or at the absence of his lead attorney, Michael Ramsey...
...most of their previous outings. There’s always been a hint of nostalgia to the Lips’ psychedelic flavor, but there’s nothing subtle about the ’70s references on “Mystics.” Both “The Wizard Turns On” and “Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung” would have settled comfortably into the middle of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon,” and songwriter and vocalist Wayne Coyne mimics McCartney...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters (BGLTS) tutors in the House. Maguire, a gay novelist, has written a number of revisionist retellings of children’s stories. “Wicked” is a take on the L. Frank Baum classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Some of the initial reviews of “Wicked,” were “dreadful,” he said. “I thought my life was over,” he said of a New York Times review that trashed...
...noteworthy about Lee is that she enters this world of bow-ties and rowing regattas ignorantly, having grown up in South Bend, Indiana and only learning of Ault through a publicity brochure. Her whimsical decision to study at Ault leads her on a “Wizard of Oz” type odyssey—one in which her Glenda never materializes and she, as Dorothy, must learn to single-handedly fight through heightened teenage trials...
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