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...Cannes Film Festival, Minimogul Menahem Golan sat down with Jean- Luc Godard and, on a table napkin, jotted down a movie contract. Cinema's old enfant terrible (Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary) would write and direct a modern King Lear. Norman Mailer would play the mad monarch, Woody Allen the fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Monarch As Gang Lord | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...football, the desperation, last second pass is called the Hail Mary. For the Harvard women's track team, it should be called the Hail Beth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Split Dual Meet at Army | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...poured into the streets after they learned that an Islamic fundamentalist leader, Hassan Ghanayem Abu Shakra, 27, would be among those expelled. Soldiers at first held off the crowds with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons. But soon they resorted to live ammunition to ward off the protesters' hail of stones and debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Deporting Their Troubles | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Early on the day Arthur Christ Agnos was elected the 37th mayor of San Francisco, a violent storm unexpectedly swept across the city, dumping hail, downing power lines, flooding streets. For a brief time chaos reigned. But shortly after the polls closed in last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Upstart Mayor, a Shaky Future | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...team as an underdog from the start. He can play that roll to the hilt. Often this coach will credit the victory not only to his players but to the Great Referee in the Sky. This speech will often resemble the preamble to a constitution or a series of "Hail Marys." Some coaches will even ask those in attendance to bow their heads and give thanks...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Post-Game Speech | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

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