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...Diana's capriciousness and asked to be shifted. Adeane, a barrister by profession, had been Charles' private secretary for six years. He saw his role as guiding the prince toward kingship. The reasons for his leaving are unclear. Some say that Adeane was annoyed by the incessant foofaraw made over Diana, while Diana felt that Adeane was too straitlaced. The post was empty for six months. In September it was announced that Sir John Riddell, director of the bank Credit Suisse First Boston, would fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...like a temple, a skyscraper or the wall of a conservatory. It neatly frames an all but impeccable The Doctor's Dilemma, Shaw's affectionate satire of medical theories, artistic pretensions and the absurd complexities brought on by love. The plot, a wittily constructed but logically dubious foofaraw, about a physician who must decide whether to save the life of a mediocre yet decent colleague or that of a gifted yet wicked artist, is taken just seriously enough to display the talents of the cast. Even the smallest performances are persuasive, and one is exceptional: as the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Great Expectations in Canada | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...camps, the one was Veeck. ("That's the usual tally," he says.) A few days later, he unveiled the new White Sox warm weather uniform-short pants. On opening day, peg-legged Veeck (he lost his leg as a result of a 1943 war wound) choreographed some Bicentennial foofaraw and greeted his crowd as the fife player in a fetching patriotic ceremony. Marching across the field with him were Business Manager Rudie Schaffer on drum and stern Sox Manager Paul Richards bearing the flag, both as resplendent as Veeck in Revolutionary War costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TWO FOR THE SHOW | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Not Legal Tender | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil from the Administration or Congress. Last week, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Public Season | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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