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...Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty and Bob. Its message can be taken in two quotes from Bob. Premarital: "You look so cute when you miss." Postmarital: "Don't hold your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

Emptied of human life, Basse-Terre now resembles the post-atomic spectacle of the movie On the Beach. French Tricolors flutter unattended in the breeze. The traffic lights are still on, but jammed on red or green. Goats wander the streets and chained dogs howl in hunger. Others, having broken their bonds, forage in the grounds of the Saint-Claude Hospital. A large poster in Basse-Terre announces that the Tivoli Cinema is showing Hell Is Empty. Yet in the town of Saint-Claude, halfway up the slopes, there remains one elderly couple that refuses to leave. Says Dorome Cherize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Under the Volcano | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...forced to say "What a piece of work is people!") They predictably bridle at "he" or "his" used as pronouns when the sex of the antecedent is unspecified (everyone will get his comeuppance). The plural pronouns "they" and "their," they suggest, could become singular, unisex pronouns. Purists will howl, but the usage (everyone will get their comeuppance) is already lamentably widespread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Father Tongue | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...Kill." Moments later, as Bruno smashes Koloff on the head with a wooden chair (not the Hollywood breakaway variety) the crowed swarms like jackals in a feeding frenzy against the plexiglass enclosing the ring. It is obvious that the mere defeat of the villain will not satisfy them--they howl for blood, for dismemberment...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...Hudson, who opened last week with Singer-Dancer Juliet Prowse in the two-character marital spoof, should have kept the screamer locked within. The London Sun found Rock's singing so far off-key as to make "timid dogs sit on their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that Prowse "is fast enough on her feet to prevent any damage to her toes when Rock is called on to do an occasional, stiff-backed military two-step." With his eight-week run sold out before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 2, 1976 | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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