Word: wizardly
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...return to the normalcy of home in such a perverse and threatening world? Rushdie’s ironic response: Dorothy’s (of The Wizard of Oz fame) ruby slippers. “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” is a nightmarishly portentous satire that reflects Rushdie’s vision of the current state of the West. In The Grand Saleroom of the Auctioneers, the narrator finds himself amid the religious fundamentalists, orphans, untouchables and even imaginary beings like E.T., who have come to bid for the slippers as an “affirmation...
Magic also pervades the academic lives of some members. Kwong, a history concentrator, is currently writing his thesis on the cultural history of magic shows at the turn of the century. Although none of the magicians can cite family members with similar wizard-like interests, St. Clair attributes some of his magical inspiration to his father, who allegedly made his nose disappear when...
...shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company has been profitable since its launch in 1999. Says Shim of his former employer: "They didn't know games, they delayed decisions...
McFerrin’s crowning (and most crowd-pleasing) achievement, however, has always been his abridge medley performance of the film The Wizard of Oz. In just under ten minutes, he moved from Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” all the way to the death of the Wicked Witch of the West, capturing all the major details on the way. His ability to mimic the Munchkins and the Lollipop Guild perhaps doesn’t make for high art, but is a shining instance of his ability to conjure vast cohesive soundscapes...
...company's fat days, Fastow earned a reputation as a money wizard who constructed the complex financial vehicles that Enron drove on the road to explosive growth. Skilling wanted an "asset-light" company that could rapidly exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, broadband capacity and anything else that could be traded. So beginning in 1993, Fastow created hundreds of "special-purpose entities" designed to transfer Enron's debt to an outside company and get it off the books--without giving up control of the assets that stood behind the debt...