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...cornerstone for the new $2.4 million Marc Chagall Memorial Museum in Nice. Beside him beamed Chagall. Then out of the crowd leaped a mustachioed, bald-headed fellow crying "A has Chagalir Splat! With unerring aim he squirted Malraux in the face with a syringe full of red paint. Cat-quick, Malraux grabbed the weapon and squirted the squirter back. "There are cranks everywhere," he shrugged as the flics took custody of the offender, a Riviera artist named Pierre Pinoncelli. "I don't intend to press charges," said Malraux. "It's just watercolor," cried Pinoncelli as the cops carted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...that we, looking up at the Sony from our paperbacks and pills, are warmed by the victory of our cat-quick, long-sideburned, free-thinking team from the city over the cold, blank rednecks from the South in a game which we have been made to feel is more theirs than ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe and the Jets | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

...with 23 Ibs. of protective padding and wears braces on both knees (he suffers from slipping kneecaps), Bathgate glides across a rink with the classic grace of an Olympic figure skater. He has exceptional peripheral vision, is an expert at "decking" (feinting) defensemen and goalies out of position. A cat-quick opportunist, he is the best playmaker in the game. And his longdistance "slapshot" is pro hockey's most effective offensive weapon: the rock-hard puck streaks toward the nets at 100 m.p.h. Twice in one season, Bathgate scored on 80-ft. slap-shots. One ripped the glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Attaboy, Andy Baby | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...tracks in the mid-'50s and won the grueling Le Mans 24-hour race three years in a row. From the Type D Sir William took road-clinging, independent rear-wheel suspension and a 265-h.p. engine that gives the Mark X a top speed of 120 after cat-quick acceleration from 0 to 30 m.p.h. in four seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Jaguar's Mark X | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Daimler SP-250 with cat-quick acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 9.5 sec.) and a $4,404 price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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