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...BUCHANAN Reform Party kaput; polls lousy; picks a black Bircher woman as Veep. A landslide fer sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 21, 2000 | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Nike's and Canon's poster boy--"Image Is Everything"--he was hangin' with Barbra Streisand (!), asking Las Vegas to name streets after him, scarfing doughnuts and sagging on court like a sprung net. He dropped to No. 25 in the world and looked to be one kaput wunderkind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Open: The Many Faces Of Agassi | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...approach, telling Howard Hughes he was forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture and make it as realistic, as exciting, as grisly as possible." Within four years the Hays system was kaput, and a new, tough Production Code was installed. Overnight, Hollywood movies went from jazzy to genteel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to the Dirty '30s | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...urges you to rent this one. Please. But if you don't rewind . . . KAPUT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Potato | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...instance, Cho told Weitzel that he'd be better if he could dribble more with his left hand, so Weitzel borrowed Cho's ball to practice in the Cabot hallways. However, the floors weren't made for dribbling, and after an hour of this Cho's basketball went kaput...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Seniors Lead Cabot to Glory in Straus Cup Competition | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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