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...Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions at least until February, when Georges Abdallah is to go on trial for complicity in the murder of an American military attache and an Israeli diplomat. The French reportedly intimated to LARF leaders that the evidence in the case is weak, and Abdallah is likely to be acquitted. While French officials denied that there was any formal truce with the Abdallahs, they admitted that government-to-government negotiations had been undertaken with Syria and others to prevent a recurrence of the Paris bombings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Hostage Release | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...young, turns out in fact to be T.V. for the Wallace generation. Like the candidate himself it offers reassurance to a lot of scared people, it tells 'em what they want to hear. And, depending on how you want to take it, "Mod Squad" can be a good larf or an evil little phenomenon with nightmarish implications...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Mod Squad | 10/8/1968 | See Source »

...Congratulations on your choice of satirist. Scarfe is a larf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1968 | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...WRITE, by John Lennon. The oldest Beatle ("he's the arty one") explains his startling collection of post-Joycean jabberwocky: "As far as I'm conceived this correction of shorty writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've ever ready." His readers shrudlu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: May 15, 1964 | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...were so hobby to see your lublyrebue on Beatle John Lennon's writty [May 1]. We all considerate quite a good larf, you know, and think John vary cleaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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