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...Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game this interminable season. Bostonians are poised to measure Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and company against any club of memory or mythology, from Chamberlain's Philadelphia 76ers and Willis Reed's New York Knicks, to the Bob Cousy, Frank Ramsey and Sam Jones Celtics of more than two decades back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A 16th Flag in Sight | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...contingent of U.S. bombers, minus one, screamed homeward from Libya, the Reagan Administration invoked the axiom that has dominated national security doctrine since Chamberlain proclaimed "peace in our time...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Lessons From Libya | 4/17/1986 | See Source »

...policy is not to allow anything but U.S. mail to be put in those mailboxes, unless something is addressed to a student or it comes from the house," said Brenda Chamberlain, assistant to the masters of Currier House...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Political Mailing Under Scrutiny | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...leads pull this show through. Geidt has been around English departments long enough to pillory tweedy blusterers with disarming exaggeration. Murphy's lisping curate is straight out of Life of Brian; I waited all evening for him to say "Welease Woger!", but it never came. Rodney Hudson plays the chamberlain Boyet with liveried style and an infectious sense of fun. John Bottoms is anything but Dull as the pinch-cheeked idiot bobby, proving once again he may be the best thing going...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

...Diplomats, natural performers and pathological liars are often impossible to read. Says Ekman: "We live in a probabilistic world. You're only going to make an estimate." (Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler, Ekman believes, was good at lying because of his ability to hide his emotions. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, duped by Hitler at Munich in 1938, once wrote, "Here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Fine Art of Catching Liars | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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