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...invasion of privacy, but a French judge refused to stop publication. Huffed Nadia Lacoste, spokeswoman for the Grimaldis: "I don't think anyone tracks gangsters the way they go after the family." Paris Match returned the fire: "If one wants to be private," says Deputy Editor Patrick Mahé", "one doesn't go to a swimming pool on the beach at Monte Carlo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1984 | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie the Cat, leaps into her syrupy, Scarlett O'Hara cadences like an eight-year-old sloshing around in a mud puddle: "One of the no-neck mahn-stuhs messed up mah luv-ly lace dress." O.K., folks, one can almost hear her say, just watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Maggie the Cat Is Alive! | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar along, "Mah bluh svade shoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Answer: mah-jongg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Let's Get Trivial | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...wars with a record of glory and rose to membership in the Standing Committee by 1956. With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he was officially named the "No. 2 capitalist reader" in the party, after Liu Shaoqi. Accused of arrogance, gluttony and dissolute habits (addiction to bridge and mah-jongg), he was purged and paraded through the streets of Peking wearing a dunce cap. He was rusticated several times-to stoop labor in Jiangxi, later to serve meals at the mess of a party training camp outside Peking. But he bears larger scars of memory. During the Great Terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: SIX WHO RULE - AND REMEMBER | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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