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...cleaning bill -but on one condition. That Miles repeats the performance once a week. ∙ Jean Cocteau said she had the head of a little black swan. "And," added Colette, "the heart of a little black bull." Caustic Couturière Coco Chanel, however, always had the last insult ("Colette preferred two grilled sausages to love; Cocteau was well bred. He had no talent, so he listened"). While stocking the modern woman's wardrobe (the little black dress, bellbottoms, turtleneck sweaters and costume jewelry), Mademoiselle was also busy needling her friends, enemies, lovers and other contemporaries. Now Psychoanalyst Claude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1973 | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...fourth-quarter touchdown passes--long bombs against reserve defensive backs--put the Terriers back in the ball game. And the final insult of a two-point conversion after the second score broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Gridders Squander Lead, Lose to Terrier Squad, 21-20 | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

Wesleyan added insult to injury near the end of the contest as Stoj picked up his second goal of the afternoon on a perfectly headed shot after a corner kick. Harvard, which had shutout its first two opponents, wilted somewhat against a creditable offense, but the absence of Kidder and Fearnett was noticeable...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Booters Suffer First Loss of Season; Wesleyan Tops Punchless Crimson, 3-0 | 10/4/1973 | See Source »

...city itself: his latest Ludwig is a disaster excused only by reports that the director's illness forced its completion by a substitute, and Death in Venice, the films, which first marked Visconti's decline from films about decadence into decadent films, was most of all an insult to the city whose landscape and legend he abused...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Film in Venice | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...resurrection of ROTC would be remarkable if only for the strength it would lend such anti-democratic forces. ROTC has no place at any free, socially conscious University. But at Harvard, Bok's judgment of the Faculty and his analysis of the University's conscience represent a particularly grave insult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No ROTC | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

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