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...calling penalties on themselves for imperceptible violations. Preparing to putt at the past Westchester Classic, Raymond Floyd noticed the ball move microscopically and docked himself a stroke. He fell out of contention, but the shot still meant $4,500 in lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted to ban Blalock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Par Cut Off at the Knees | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...when I took my seat in the packed theater, after having endured a ten minute Kodak slideshow featuring lots of pictures of ice crystallizing, and dogs, and beaches, and sunsets, and black holes, and umbrellas, and kite-flying, and gap-teethed kids gobbling psychedelic spools of never-eat-anything-bigger-than-yer-head cotton candy, my heart was going pitter-pat. It really was. I, err, looked forward to this thing, this piece of space-detritus with more zeros at the end of its comet-tail budget than the rounded-off totality of the Harvard endowment...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: KID IN A CANDYSHOP: | 2/6/1987 | See Source »

...Kites. To indulge those soaring spirits further, check out the goods at Outermost Kites (Faneuil Hall). For $4.95 they'll sell you a dragon kite with an 80-inch streamer tail. A limited edition Sanyo rokkaku kite, complete with Samurai warriors, sells...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: An Ethereal, but Hip Fairy Tale | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...production is a two-act, 14-scene concoction of songs, dance routines, and comic interchanges, each inspired by a facet of the of the long-running strip. They include the baseball game, Snoopy's supper, and Chuck's kite foibles among others...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Baby Peanuts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

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