And this week, you have the chance to meet the men behind the curtain.
That is, buy shares in rotten, mismanaged public companies that can be fixed behind the curtain of privacy.
Anyone can run a Web site and emulate the Wizard of Oz, hiding behind the curtain, creating grand illusions.
Then we have Sarah Palin, an underdog story that turned out to have an attack dog behind the curtain.
And to trust yourself you have to step out from behind the curtain.
If Apple does have a clever new consumer electronic gadget waiting behind the curtain, the timing couldn't be better.
In the view of some, DeLay's exit exposed Hastert as little more than the man behind the curtain in the Land of Oz.
But what Chan tells us is that, for the most part, the people may not want to look behind the curtain.
One presumes many negotiations are going on behind the curtain but so far, shareholders are being kept quite in the dark.
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Behind the curtain, the male bodybuilders were preparing for the final pose-down.
For reasons that only the man behind the curtain at the Googleplex could possibly know, that question pops you over to the site digitalalchemy.com.
Trump really is an illusionist when it comes to his net worth, just like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.
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She was standing now, looking behind the curtain, out the window.
But once the wizard was revealed as the little old man behind the curtain pushing around a bunch of buttons and knobs, the image was destroyed.
"The Academy museum will take the visitor through the back door of cinema, behind the curtain, and into moviemaking magic, " said 74-year-old Piano, whose buildings have frequently divided opinion.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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Gibson offers a unique perspective on his corner of the universe, and for fans, this is a peek behind the curtain at Gibson's take on writing and the creative process, the future, technology, history and social connectivity.
Attacking Gingrich is a standard Democratic ploy, but in the Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude.
Would he stay behind the curtain and think about things, marinate in his own confusion, or would he put on his white fur suit and howl and scratch and make it known who was boss of this house and of all the world known and unknown?
At the end of the day, it's not about dropping your product or service focus entirely--but those leaders of the reputation economy who are leading by example have found a way to deepen those connections with their customers by letting them know who's behind the curtain.
For committed meditators, cultivating this wisdom of seeing clearly is at the very heart of the mindfulness meditation practice that trains us to step out from behind the curtain of our restless minds and touch life directly, getting a full, authentic measure of our experience beyond self-deception and impulsiveness.
As a young patent lawyer in the early 1960s he went behind the Iron Curtain and brought back the metal sutures that gave birth to U.S. Surgical Corp. and the technology to make soft contact lenses.
In a city which has finally regained its status as one of eastern Europe's leading cultural capitals after the devastation of World War II and decades largely isolated from the West behind the Iron Curtain, Kaye said the orchestra's message of peace through music was especially resonant.
The company sees a day when any company--soapmaker, shoe marketer, airline, bank--can act as an Internet service provider (ISP). 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
The firm envisions a day when any company, from soapmaker to shoe marketer to airline or bank, can act as an Internet service provider. 1stUp's angle: The marketers pay 1stUp to provide the behind-the-curtain ISP service they offer, giving it away to gain an intimate, ongoing relationship with customers.
Navratilova was the hard-muscled, jarringly-accented lesbian who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain.
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Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
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