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Measuring Yachts. The plot, florid and foolish by turns, concerns Madame Rosepettle and her young son (Andrew Ray), moneyed travelers who ply the international circuit from hotel to hotel, taking with them the stuffed remains of Mr. Rosepettle. A sort of Auntie Maim, Madame Rosepettle also has a cat-eating piranha fish, a couple of man-eating plants and a psychopathic hobby: she stalks lovers on the beaches at night and kicks sand into their faces. She keeps her son locked away from the world to guarantee his presence when she finally decides the direction in which his future greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Oh Tennessee, Poor Tennessee Kopit's Hung You in the Closet And Won't You Be Mad | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...when the House education bill (calling for $1.3 billion over four years) came up for debate at midweek, the House put on a messy display of cross-purposed confusion. Amendments and proposals that would kill or maim the bill popped up and down like ducks at a sideshow shooting gallery. The Congressman whose proposal did the most harm was New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Maiming Amendment | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Spare the Hops. The fact is, said the report, that many of Britain's laws go back to the Middle Ages when it was far more serious to disturb the economic and social feudal order than to kill or maim a man. The maximum penalty for blaspheming, destroying hops, burning a haystack, or "maliciously damaging a river bank" is still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: English Justice | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...social effects in Russia and the U.S. University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really hold maul-and-maim contests in which the object is to kill one's opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Americans at Moscow U. | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: The Shook-Up Generation | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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