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...three-foot-wide flared nostrils; a hot-air balloon that, too cold to climb out of the stadium, drifted into the stands and was torn apart by fans. The N.F.L. went superpatriotic in 1972, when it staged a flyover by Air Force jets, having arranged for a plane to peel off into the "missing man" formation while P.O.W. families looked on. There have been theatrics spectacular, displays dismal. This year it is all up to Walt Disney Productions, which will assure us that "It's a Small World" and a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: THE SUPER SHOW | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Indeed, Dole's greatest asset on the stump has turned out to be his humor. But Ford did not select Dole as his running mate just for the laughs he might bring. A former G.O.P. national chairman, Dole can peel skin as well as tickle ribs. Dole accuses Carter of vaulting ambition and questions his "weird performance, his judgment" in the wake of the Playboy interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RUNNING MATES: Slugfest in a Houston Alley | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...human body is one of comedy's supple tools. In agility, it releases tonic exuberance. As an object of humiliation through banana-peel pratfalls or pies in the face, it evokes instant delight. Even distortions or grotesqueries of the body-obesity, dwarfishness, eccentric gaits, tics, stutters, deafness and drunken staggers-have all been known to provoke a startling comic catharsis in playgoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Karate | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...court, the various claimant sides will be forced to reveal as much as they can about his state of mind and his way of life in order to prove the validity of their own claims to his fabulous wealth. It seems quite likely that the looming litigation will peel back the layers of mystery. They still cloak Hughes in much the same manner as the yellow sheet that shrouded his emaciated corpse on his last flight home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...only thing between Nelson Rockefeller and the presidency is a banana peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Ridicule Problem | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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