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...around, that feeling disappears." Occasionally, Nicholson's competitiveness gets in the way of the general bonhomie. Bob Rafelson recalls that during the shooting of The King of Marvin Gardens, all of Nicholson's bottled-up energies would come out in a series of demon Ping Pong games with the crew. Says Rafelson: "He demolished everyone who dared to take him on." Nicholson is smart enough to know when to call off rivalries. He avoided Ping Pong competition with Michelangelo Antonioni, who directed him in the upcoming The Passenger, fearing shaky times if the filmmaker lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...patrons in Australia's Queensland have long been accustomed to pass the time by tossing burning cigarette butts out the window, or Ping Pong balls, or whatever other small objects come to hand. Outside, likely as not, sits an all-purpose mini garbage-disposal unit called Bufo marinus, and the beer quaffers amuse themselves by watching this undiscriminating toad gobble up almost anything coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Down the road, meanwhile, the U.N. troops were folding up tents in which Israeli and Syrian officers had worked out the details of the cease-fire and disengagement. "They didn't play Ping Pong here, no sir," an Irish colonel said, indicating inside the largest tent a Ping Pong table used by U.N. officers as a conference board. "They didn't even talk to each other." Instead, a Syrian officer would stand at the entrance at one end of the tent and an Israeli officer would stand at the entrance at the other end. A U.N. officer would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israeli Exit | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...plan calls for the conversion of the old kitchen and dining room area between Barnard and Briggs Halls into two large suite areas housing ten students. One of the rooms is now used for ping pong and foosball tables and the other is unused...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Administration Agrees to Pay For South House Construction | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

...extremely boring." Three other young titlists came better prepared. Setting their own private record for unicycle riding (50 hr.), they brought along Johnson's baby powder to alleviate what they called "diaper rash" and kept happy in the saddle for a record 50 by playing cards, Ping Pong and pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Oddball Olympics | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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