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...high point of the day, however, comes early. The 45th bird, Lola B., a 15-oz. common bantam with a proud black tail, breaks cleanly from the mailbox, then swings sharply to the left and lands atop a sheep shed beyond the snow fences. A tape-measure team figures her flight at 302 ft. 8 in., which betters Kung Flewk's old record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Fowl Spectacle | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...peek at the topless chorus girls of the Folies Bergere in Paris (a similar show had been on HBO earlier). Its other offerings have included What's Up, America?, a magazine-type show taking looks at Americana (a honeymoon hotel, an erotic bakery), and specials featuring Lola Falana, Engelbert Humperdinck and Debbie Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

There are other examples of appearances fooling us. The best is Madame Lola, a lean black prostitute who ends up supporting Madame Rosa and Momo when her fellow prostitutes no longer send their children to the old woman. She is genuinely kind and genuinely cares, which belies her appearance as a prostitute. But that isn't all. In Momo's first taping he reveals that Madame Lola is really a former male fighter who has had hormone injections and now "peddles her ass." It is a revelation that comes as a complete surprise which means, even more, that whether...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Substance Over Form | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...rowing one of the unwieldy rubber boats and scrambling up the sage-covered slopes of side canyons, Andrus clearly enjoyed himself on his two-day holiday from the office. So did the three dozen others in the six-boat party, including Idaho Governor John Evans and his wife Lola. But the purpose of the cruise was business as well as pleasure. Both the natural area and its high-flying inhabitants are endangered, and the river trip marked the kickoff of a joint public and private campaign to save them. "These birds are valuable, important even to the people who never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Snake River | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Thousands of Bostonians strolled on the Common among a ten-man jazz band, clowns and belly dancers. In New York City, where the celebration was organized by Robert Redford's wife Lola, about 500 people at the United Nations Plaza droned an appropriate mantra at dawn: "Sun-nun-nun-nua ..." In Greenwich Village, eighth-grade students from St. Luke's School cooked chocolate-chip cookies and hot dogs on solar grills; at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Omega Liturgical Dance Company re-enacted a Renaissance ceremony in which a ball symbolizing the sun is passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Having Fun with the Sun | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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