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Punches were thrown, noses broken, and heads looked. It looked like the re-enactment of some pathetic Civil War battle. Some kid even managed to steal a Yale College flag. And dozens of smallish students were chased around by dozens of biggish students. It was thoroughly ridiculous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOING VIOLENCE RIGHT | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

...belted out Rodgers and Hart show tunes and one of the guests-those present swore to conceal her identity-performed an acceptable cancan. Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth loved it. That party was staged in Manhattan more than a decade ago. This year's birthday celebration, "a biggish affair with family and close friends," according to the palace's description, will be one fully befitting a royal septuagenarian. Seventy is stately and sugary, according to Cecil Beaton's official photo portrait, which shows the smiling Queen Mother in diamonds and pearls against a backdrop of flowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1970 | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Boatswain Wookey, a ruddy, biggish man, made his dive in standard diving equipment (a rubberized fabric suit with a round helmet), but behind him stood the calculations of many scientists who had scheduled every minute and foot of the dive. A crew of engineers and pathologists helped him into the water or watched instruments in the hold of the Reclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deepest Diver | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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