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...amusement of several thousand students, alumni and faculty members. Weinstein finished his speech and got another ovation. What followed, though, was unplanned. Principal Gaspar Fabriquante, obviously embarrassed by Weinstein's presentation, tried to make a joke of it. "There must have been something in the water he drank." Fabriquante explained. At which point Weinstein, seated on stage, tell off his chair as it in a dead faint. Everyone watching knew it was an act--everyone that is except for the Nobel laureate alumnus seated behind Weinstein. "The guy jumped up and started frantically examining Anders to make sure...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: But Seriously Folks. . . | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London's Old Bailey that Michael Fagan, 34, had not acted criminally. After deliberating for only 14 minutes, the jury found the unemployed laborer not guilty of burglarizing Buckingham Palace last June 7, when he drank half of a $5.40 bottle of Riesling belonging to Prince Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: No Trespassing | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

...began to work with delinquent teenagers, but he got into trouble there too, fighting with the authorities over their rough handling of the kids. "They told me: Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady, and one day he went after her where she worked-just to talk, he says. Nonetheless, he had a shotgun with him that went off in a scuffle with the woman's fellow employees. She was wounded. Sy didn't mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Prisoner | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...time records. Says Norton: "We've basically eliminated most of the performers who don't cover their own costs." No casino is likely to repeat the mistake of the Aladdin Hotel, which put Donnie and Marie Osmond into its Baghdad Room last summer. "Their crowds drank Cokes and left," says one Vegas marketing analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Are the Stars Out Tonight? | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...painful disorientation when he stands in for Leading Man Henderson Forsythe. The amateur actor drops his prop pistol, is smothered by a Texas flag and walks into a brass pole trying to exit. During a pantomime phone call, instead of staying in character, King mutters into the instrument, "Gonna drank me a batch of that ol' Cutty Sark tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cattle Call | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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