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...Where to begin," mused the old Crimson elf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Years of Christmas | 12/19/1986 | See Source »

...Eiffel Tower of Paris has always looked a bit like an oil derrick. Now a consortium of French energy companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Is Paris Gushing? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...nearly 30 years ago, oil companies have suspected that further deposits might lie under the city itself. If significant amounts of crude are found beneath any of Paris' landmark districts, drilling could be done at a 45% angle, and thus the wellhead might be situated nearly two miles away. Elf Aquitaine spokesmen claim that the drilling equipment could be hidden behind fake building facades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Is Paris Gushing? | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Soon a message for Alan appeared on the suite door, promising an erotic massage with exotic oils from a willing elf. The next day I was working on a paper at my desk, the door to my room open as usual. I saw Christina in a miniskirt-and-net-stocking elf costume, pay Alan a very personal visit in his bedroom. Hearing the noises through the wall, I sat wondering who had given Alan this incredible present. Perhaps Christina herself suggested...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Guide to Freshman Hell | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...dramatics at Stanford University lasted three years. "Every day was a happening," she says. "I wore an elf costume -- red pantaloons, vest and hat, all festooned with blue pompons -- and lived with my boyfriend in a tree house, dining on vegetables we stole from the experimental garden. One day, for a linguistics presentation, we threw pies at each other, then tossed tiny parachutes at the other class members. The professor gave us both A's." And now in May '68, here is La Pasionaria Sigourney, set to exhort the students with quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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