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...they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas TV? You could hardly call the Queen's speech a gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Future of Transplants | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

Washington's Gridiron show was a gasser, but hardly worth the hangover it cost Runyonesque Rabelaisian Toots Shor, 62, who had lumbered down from his Manhattan diner for the party. Packing up the day after, big Toots tripped on a hotel carpet, performed a dive of a high degree of difficulty and belted his 250-lb. bulk down onto the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1966 | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...Some Gasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...think that an Andy Warhol endorsement [Mar. 4] for our liquid helium would be a real "gasser." As the nation's largest supplier, we can keep his balloons filled for life. That ought to give him a lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Australian surfers get their kicks on the combers at Sydney's Neilson Park, zipping through shark nets so ragged that they no longer stop sharks, only surfers. At Huntington Beach, Calif., the gasser is "pier shooting" - hurtling between the concrete pilings of a pier. But these pastimes are only makeshift substitutes for riding the "heavies" off Makaha, a lonely beach on the west coast of Oahu that is every surfer's idea of paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing: Champion of the Heavies | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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