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Serendipity may prove the best guide, for much of the pleasure of Expo 86 can be found in less expected places and in the more unsophisticated exhibits. The Thai pavilion, for example, contains the throne, 150 years old and encrusted with gold leaf, on which the Siamese King rode his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Canada Puts on a Fair That's Fun | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

In the summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

AMONG THE INTERESTING disease tables, the perennial favorites, the Tourette's Table and the Incontinent Table, will be matched only by the stilted, jerky rapport of the Narcolepsy Table for pure comic potential. Most fascinating of all will be the fiery spectacle of the Spontaneous Combustion Table. And for those...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Trouble With Tables | 4/1/1986 | See Source »

< That's nowhere near the half of it. We haven't mentioned the cockroaches that crawl out of a wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rule Insanity Bliss | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Wanda: You argue like a rogue elephant runs, Ralph. Look, Masters and Johnson showed that the clitoral-vaginal debate was irrelevant. There is only one kind of orgasm, and it almost always involves stimulation of the clitoris. It's just that orgasms without that stimulation are rarer and milder than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: On the Trail of the Big O | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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