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Oct.15.2009
THE WIZARD OF Oz...
I saw this groundbreaking stunner of a film Live, in a theater when it first came out. This was before Star Wars, digital special effects, general use of color film, street argot as art, swearing as culture, tits and ass as stunt stand-ins for ideas, and the use "...
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Oct.15.2009
I didn't know what Dorothy's gingham dress looked like and the ruby slippers of my imagination were richer and more exciting that the sequinned versions I saw in the movie a decade later. I still don't know how the wizard arrived at my home. But he did, for I found the book sans cover in an old...
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Oct.15.2009
For the past month and a half my fellow pharmacists and I have been doing flu vaccinations to walk-in patients as well as those with scheduled appointments. Most of the scheduled appointments are with those patient-customers that we serve every day; however, the walk-in patient-customers tend to...
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Oct.15.2009
I grew up in the 1950s, the youngest of six kids in a Korean immigrant family. There were eight of us in a two-bedroom house in Takoma Park, just north of Washington, DC. Outside of school and church duties, we five girls mostly spent our spare time helping my mother make kimchee, which she sold by...
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Oct.15.2009
Just about a month ago, I went home. It had been several years since I visited my hometown of London, Ontario, Canada. More than 10 years ago, with four kids in tow, ranging in age from 2 to 13, we left family and friends behind and headed south. We've lived in the suburbs of Atlanta ever since....
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Oct.15.2009
A WIZARD IS A WIZARD AFTER ALL!
Dorothy: If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises!Wizard: Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm...
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Oct.15.2009
Growing up in Nebraska, I was more than a little familiar with the monotonous terrain and lifestyle of our neighboring state, Kansas. And, the promise of Oz. In fact all of us carried Oz around with us. It was something called imagination. Oz, you see, is a state of mind.
I’m not sure...
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Oct.15.2009
Back in the olden days, long ago, when there was no cable, dish, satellite, Tivo; no DVD, no VHS, no VCR to play said VHS, there was broadcast television. Yes, my children, there was a time when you could only watch what was on at the time. You could not pick and choose--HD or regular--but...
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Oct.15.2009
Dorothy and the Wizard of OZ had enchanted me when I was young but I renewed my relationship with her after my first born was big enough to listen to tales and since he was an avid reader I rediscovered the entire 'OZ' series. I also discovered that Baum had named ‘OZ’ after a random...
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Oct.15.2009
It's funny but I never read the The Wizard of Oz as a child. At least not the original book. I had a highly abridged pop-up book version and later a movie-script based one, with pictures from the film. I always liked the movie and later I read some of the later installments of the series, The...
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