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...book as lovely as its dust jacket?Pisanello's Portrait of a Lady. The retold tale of Eliduc, a 12th century Celtic romance, charmingly repeats the story of a knight torn between his love for a princess and his loyalty to his wife. A story called Poor Koko tells of a sort of casual Marxist burglar who amiably loots the guesthouse where a pedantic writer is staying, then, like a Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shimmering Perversity | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas $25,000-$70,000 per ⅓-to ½ acre Palm Springs, Calif., vicinity of airport $100,000 per acre Lake Tahoe, Calif., waterfront lots $1,000 per front ft. Koko Kai, Oahu, Hawaii, ocean-front on marina $125,000 for less than ½ acre

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Shopping List of Prices | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...past ten years at West Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa, Alice Margaret Hayes, 67, has been reading the story Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon to her speech and drama class. When black students began busing to the school three years ago, Mrs. Hayes was always careful to ask if any objected, recognizing the stereotype that the title implies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Speech Defect | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Cleveland detectives noted that the intruder, if any, had left no fingerprints. Chip was not awakened and Koko, the Irish setter, was not heard to bark.* A police time-motion study calculated that Sheppard could have run upstairs in six seconds, and it would have required 40 seconds to strike the 27 blows that had been inflicted on Marilyn's skull. Moreover. Cleveland detectives figured that Marilyn died between 3:10 and 4 a.m. Sheppard phoned to Houk some two hours later. In the meantime, tests disclosed, a trail of blood leading from the bedroom to a basement sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Forty Seconds of Fury | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

...KIND Of a KICK OUt of WICH Calls WERE included. I'd like to KNOW the KOSY KOVE or KASM your KREW uses to WORK in. They're missing plenty. KAST a KWIK look at the KEEN KROP I KROW about. I had to WRAK my WIRY KOKO until it was a WERI WREC and hard to KEEP KOOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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