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Known variously as "the Lion," "the Great Crocodile," "the Bull," "Son of the She Elephant," "the Great Mountain" and "the Inexplicable," King Sobhuza II, 82, became the leader of Swaziland the year Warren G. Harding moved into the White House. Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the old Lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 14, 1981 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Some carried tape measures, trowels, putty knives, melon ballers and plant misters. Mostly, the 1,500 people who turned out on Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Sand Fantasies | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

For actors and artists, such effects often demand both time and patience. It took 81 hours, for example, for Christopher Tucker to turn John Hurt into the elephant man. Hurt had to report for work at 4:30 a.m. and, since he was not transformed until noon, often wound up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

One problem, however, has not been solved. Except for a few classy pictures like Raiders, Elephant Man and Raging Bull, the best makeup is usually done for horror films that most adults never see, or would admit to seeing. "Some of my best work," complains Stan Winston (The Wiz), "has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wizards of Goo and Gadgetry | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

What can you get for $25 million these days? If you're Producer Don Boyd and Director John Schlesinger, assembling a kook's tour of characters and situations for your episodic comedy about American life on wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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