In the view of some, DeLay's exit exposed Hastert as little more than the man behind the curtain in the Land of Oz.

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Because the Land of Oz exists outside our reality, even the most ersatz effects -- butterfly trees and flowers that toll like bells -- are fair game.

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The movies stars James Franco as Oz, a magician from Kansas who lands in the land of Oz and befriends three witches played by Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachael Weisz.

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When Oscar is literally whisked away to the enchanted land of Oz, his fortunes start to change, and he slowly learns to believe and to have faith in other people, which of course leads him to have faith in himself.

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Scott Fitzgerald (who was 4 years old in 1900, just the right age to be part of the first generation of Oz fans) included a reference to "The Land of Oz" in his story "Outside the Cabinet-Makers, " the characters were already iconic.

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Oz was a virtual witch's curse, as such disasters as "The Wonderful Land of Oz" (1969) and "Journey Back to Oz" (1974) seemed to prove the latter being a rather crudely animated feature whose sole virtue is an all-star soundtrack, taped a dozen years earlier, starring Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli, as the voice of Dorothy.

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Yet literally thousands of wineries around the world, large and small, luxury-priced and plonky, either own such devices themselves or send their wines out for a little laundering. (One outfit alone, ConeTech in Santa Rosa, claims more than 600 confidential winery clients.) It is kind of like winemaking in the Land of Oz--"A snip, snip here, a snip, snip there and a couple of la-di-dahs"--without the cheerful Munchkins.

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