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...Philippine Foreign Minister Narciso Ramos and Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak agreed to a "cooling off period," to last indefinitely, or at least, the Malaysians hoped, until after the Philippine national elections next year. Ramos made it clear that the agreement could prove a personal albatross: "It hangs around my neck. I expect to be criticized when I get back. In fact, I may be roasted alive." The Philippine government could repudiate Ramos' commitment at Djakarta, but only at the price of withdrawing from ASEAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: A Victory for Regionalism | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...albatross was hatched by George Birnbaum and Joshua Rubins, porcine roommates who look like they sat around Quincy House giggling over lines like, "The best is yet to come...and I want to be there when he does." Rubins fared somewhat better with the lyrics...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: All the Queen's Men | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

...opening curtain finds Scuba Duba's hero holding a huge scythe in the middle of a Riviera chateau draw ing room. Harold Wonder (Jerry Orbach) has an albatross complex and a symbolic knife at his throat. While his two children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Broadway: Cuckold in a Panic | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...Poor Barbara Garson! Now that the critics have roasted MacBird into a gilt-edged annuity, she will have to reconcile herself to fame and a fat purse. That's a hell of an albatross to hang on a fully committed protester. If that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...long enough to produce classics. The very quality of daring that at the moment makes them so tempting may yet be their downfall: a classic evening gown is good for seasons on end; already the sequined evening suit is so conspicuous that it has begun to hang like an albatross by the third wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Suits That Suit | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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