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...have to put on their Gaultier gowns and Armani tuxes right after lunch - it seemed as if Oscar might be following the Super Bowl, the Grammys and the Democratic presidential primaries in providing a slate of improbable winners. Cotillard, who poured her 5ft. 6in. frame into the shivering, shimmering 4ft. 8in. personality of chanteuse Edith Piaf, was only the second Best Actress winner from a foreign-language film. (Sophia Loren won in 1962 for Two Women.) Swinton, a Brit much admired for her fearless choice of indie roles, was an even longer shot as the scheming executive in Michael Clayton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Evening for 80-Year-Old Oscar | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...burned bodies from the vehicles. A man stomped on a headless corpse while the crowd chanted, "God is great." The mob tied yellow ropes around the neck and thigh of one body and dragged it along the road. Another man ran up to the body and slammed a 4ft.-long water pipe down on what remained of the torso. About half a dozen men then affixed two of the bodies to the back of a dark red Opel sedan and dragged them about two miles to a bridge over the Euphrates River, where they were suspended from a girder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Cauldron | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

Things obviously have changed since the two first met, when Kissinger reportedly referred to Chou's heir apparent as "that nasty little man." Ruthless and arrogant, the tiny (4ft. 11-in.) Vice Premier is considerably different in style from his urbane predecessor. He lacks Chou's subtlety and sinuous charm, not to mention his manners. In the middle of a conversation, he will often expectorate noisily into a handy spittoon. "You must forgive me," he may say. "I am just a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: TOUGH NEW MAN IN PEKING | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...pound shot-put.--M. A. Barth '14, 3ft.; R. B. Batchelder '13, 1 ft.; H. B. Beebe '14, 4 ft.; O. M. Chadwick '11, 5 ft.; J. G. French '12, 4ft.; J. Jeffrics '13, 5ft.; L. D. Howard '14, 3ft.; J. Jeffrics '13, 5ft.; L. D. Howard '14, 3 ft.; R. V. Moody '11, scratch; R. W. Searle '14, 5 ft.; R. T. P. Storer '14, 4 ft.; J. C. Twomey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Track Games Tomorrow | 10/27/1910 | See Source »

...invitation in 4 3-5s., and H. B. Clark 1901, with a handicap of 70 yds. took first place in the mile run. S. F. Mills '99 won the shot put with a total of 41 ft. 7 3-4 in., his handicap being 4ft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE B. A. A. GAMES. | 2/7/1898 | See Source »

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