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...self-destructive circle of drunks in Hollywood history, a darkly tragic group. Worse, the film falsifies many of the known facts about Fields in an attempt to create a conventional rags-to-riches show-biz saga. Even Steiger finally goes soft, hinting that a pagliaccio was hiding behind the bulbous nose and the rasping whine-an insight neither Fields nor his friends are on record as entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: W.C. Pagliaccio | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...multi-colored lion, bulbous-eyed with wagging ears, writhed in between the Chevy coupe and the grey sedan. Blackclad men brandishing machetes whooped in its wake; fireworks resounded like gunshots, until the very sidewalks seemed to throb...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Lion Dance, Fireworks Spark Start of Year of the Dragon | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Cass Sunstein was the hatchetman on the Crimson's Murderer's Row, despite a bulbous and festering blister that sprouted on his racquet hand while he was cramming for his law boards. Sunstein throttled his opponent in four games after the hand was hermetically sealed in a sable golf glove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raquetmen Quash Big Green; Top Seven Seeds String Wins | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 115-m.p.h. Madness | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...Turkish voters it was the sharpest choice ever between the old political style and the new. There was bulbous Premier Suleyman Demirel, 51, speaking to a partisan crowd of 70,000 in Istanbul's Taksim Square and denouncing opposition leaders as "dangerous coddlers of Communism and anarchy. To vote for such people is a sin, sin, sin." His supporters roared back the ancient Ottoman chant: "Suleyman the Magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Suleyman the Troubled | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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