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...Drat! It's raining outside. Let's order in. Pizza again? Chinese? Just for a change, my dear, let's try a pate de foie de canard, an oyster salad, quail with grapes and, oh, let's be daring, a tarte aux framboises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Dashing Way to Dine | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...around here anymore on November 8; semi-colon; Charlie Daniels at the Orf on the Fifth; Joan Armatrading (tremendous voice), The Ramones (cute mugs, Rockwell likes 'em) and The Talking Heads (former Modern Lovers included, for those who remember, those who care) are all up-and-coming; Firefall cancelled [drat]; Styx the 4th at the Orf; at the Paradise: Southside Johnny like right now or something, Chris Hillman, Sea Level and Mink De Ville coming up, not to mention Charles Mingus and Larry Coryell, and Pheobe Snow, and the Gentle Giant. Queen is not not not not to be missed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disco 1, Mopeds 0 | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

Everything was bubbly as Funny Girl Barbra Streisand, 23, gave Husband Elliott Gould a loving buss backstage at Broadway's Martin Beck Theater after Elliott opened in a mock Sennett musical called Drat! The Cat! Then some of those cool New York cats-the critics-spoiled the party. They decided that, while Elliott was charming enough as a simple-souled cop who falls in love with a cat burglaress, they weren't so charmed by Librettist Ira Levin's pratfalling plot. As Mrs. Gould commiserated with her husband, the producers closed the play after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 22, 1965 | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...thought as much," she says bemusedly, then steps into the dock to testify in her son's trial for murder. He has slain 34-or perhaps 43-people by striking them down while they laughed at his jokes. Complaints have been lodged, the judge informs her. And drat it, the lad wears only black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sappy? No, Absurd | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...tall grass. Actor Granger strides up answering to the name of Harry Black, a famed hunter hired by the government to dispatch the tiger. He quickly corners the beast and is squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice in the war cost Granger a portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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