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...They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real-life ordeal, their dose of surreal fun was medicine for fretful minds. They helped prove Britain could take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...knew what he was doing,” Rice Coach Wayne Graham said of Hordon’s offspeed stuff, which at one point was clocked at 56 mph. “He was throwing some heatless curveballs that not many people can even get over the plate...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...here they were on a fine October morning in Winterset, Iowa-cloudless sky, heatless sun, a soft breeze rustling leaves that had turned to perfectly photogenic reds and golds. Beresford was gone; Streep was present; Eastwood was directing as well as co-starring; the script was finally right and so was today's pretty location, through which an aged Francesca was supposed to wander distraught (she has just learned that her long-ago three-day lover has died). As Eastwood ambled over to discuss the day's first shot with his longtime cinematographer, Jack Green, he was heard to murmur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COWBOY AND THE LADY | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...genteelly christened Charlotte Gardens. Proudly showing off his fully equipped three-bedroom house with its cathedral ceilings, plush carpeting and small backyard, David notes, "This is a hell of a deal compared with the hellhole we lived in before." The Riveras jumped at the chance to desert their often heatless $400-a-month rental apartment near by. They took possession of their new $47,000 home with an initial $7,500, and will pay a mortgage of $370 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Homesteaders | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...help alleviate the suffering, the city opened two National Guard armories to refugees from heatless buildings. As many as 2,000 people-mainly mothers with young children-fled their frigid homes to sleep, eat, read, iron and pass the gloomy days on Army-issue cots. Elizabeth Martinez brought her two toddlers, ages 1 and 2, to an armory in Harlem. Said she: "They were getting sick with colds and fever all the time. My little one's hands were green and frozen from the cold. The water was frozen in the toilet bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Cold, Too Hot, Too Dry | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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