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...million shot that burst his weapon and gashed his face. Yet another private stepped into the gaping steel jaws of a Viet Cong mantrap, and when a fourth marine rushed to his aid, the rescuer stumbled onto a sharpened bamboo stake-injuring his leatherneck pride more than his derri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Diagnosis: Battle Fatigue Rx: Transfusion | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

They certainly belong together. Choreographer Merce Cunningham believes that all movement is dance. Composer John Cage insists that all sound is music. Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg thinks "every object is as good as every other object." But could they belong to derrière-garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Pop Ballet | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...Cornish, N.H., home, where he has lived for more than 50 years, Parrish is plainly baffled; he thinks of himself as derrière-garde. "How can these avant-garde people get any fun out of my work?" he asks. "I'm hopelessly commonplace." He couldn't have picked a more fashionable word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illustrators: Grand-Pop | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Girls, why starve to shrink your derri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Actually, la poitrine was never so emphasized as in the new décolletage, and le derrière is still with us. For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund. Voila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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