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Christopher "Loin Cloth" Atkins could probably go to the University of California, Berkeley, named by 24 percent of college presidents. Christopher Atkins, we hope you won't recall, stripped for Princeton's Brooke in Blue Lagoon, posed naked with a snake (Nastassia looked better) for a pin-up poster, showed all to Playgirl, and go-go danced for Lesley Ann Warren in his latest flick. A Night in Heaven. At Cal/Berkeley, he could get degree credit for that. Even we could get Cal/Berkeley degree credit for stripping. Need we say more...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Stanford Who? | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth-the most adored and potent man in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1930: India: Declaration of Independence | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1930: India: Declaration of Independence | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...down monogamy," poking about in the embers of their love. He is a restorer of modern art ("Not that wide a field, you know. More like a kitchen garden"), and she participates ardently in church-music concerts. By contrast, Kate (Roxanne Hart), a photographer, is just 25 and loin directed, an amoral minx spawned by the permissive society. She seduces James with a lingering kiss ("her tongue straight to the back of my mouth, circling like a snake inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love and Loin | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...comprehensive, down-to-earth guide to French family cooking that is both witty and percipient. Her French Cuisine for All (Doubleday; $19.95), meticulously edited for the American cook, covers the Gallic spectrum from country soups and dandelion salad to such exotica as iced caviar-flavored consommé and roast loin of young wild boar (frozen joints of European boar are available at specialty stores in some U.S. cities). Bertholle's recipes for chocolate cakes are guaranteed to leave her pages stained with fudgy fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Well-Laden Table of Cookbooks | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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