Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember Buddy Ebsen as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz? Of course not. And Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow? Of course. But the Scarecrow dancing crazily off fences, being bowled over by a pumpkin and sailing high in the air over the cornfield? Well...
...have seen these scenes for decades, except for a couple of archivists at MGM and some film fanatics. Now they are finally available for home viewing -- but not on tape. They can be seen only on the sumptuous laser-disc Criterion edition of The Wizard...
...Giuliani is expected to try to put at least one Drexel employee behind bars. In perhaps its most humiliating cave-in, Drexel agreed to cooperate with the Government investigation of Michael Milken, the financial wizard who created the market for high-yielding junk bonds (total now held: $180 billion) and who remains the ultimate target of Giuliani's probe. Milken, who was not represented in the settlement talks, is expected to be indicted in Manhattan sometime in January...
...when Joe's time to enter politics arrived in 1986, he reminded very few people of his father and uncles. He was not smooth, not polished and certainly not articulate. Reporters covering the congressional race dubbed him "The Wizard of Uhs," because of his jumbled sentence fragments. But that did not matter because he was a Kennedy, and Kennedys usually win political elections--especially in Massachusetts...
...Crimson lost two starters, forward Sharon Hayes and guard Barb Keffer, who combined to average 26 points per game last season and finished as Harvard's top two all-time scorers. Also missing from the Harvard roster will be defensive wizard Nancy Cibotti and the tenacious Mary Baldauf...