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DIED. SYDNEY GUILAROFF, 89, hair stylist whose Hollywood coiffures were a cut above the rest; in Beverly Hills. Guilaroff's magical scissorhands gave Claudette Colbert her frisky bangs and transformed the blonde Lucille Ball into a riotous redhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 9, 1997 | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...here we are. Game Seven. The city of Chicago is buzzing. The stores on Michigan Avenue close early in fear of riotous celebration to celebrate the anticipated Bulls win. The New York City Board of Education, in an unprecedented move, closed the schools for what it deemed "Herb Williams...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: A Dying Knicks Fans' Last Request | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...parties and weddings--something along the lines of "Name That Tune"--which focuses on Indian film music and gave everyone in the ensemble a chance to show off their singing, dancing and clowning skills. Vipin Goyal '98 and Shilpa Jain '98 wee particularly spectacular in their exuberant and riotous re-creation of a film dance, acting out a marital infidelity, argument and reconciliation...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Thrills Sold-Out Crowd | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...have not joined the over-crowded ranks of the party-starved masses. I don't think that a riotous keg bash will serve our purposes. My proposal is more surgical, and I do not carelessly invoke medical imagery. This campus suffers from a malignant tumor. We are being consumed by a rampant competitive instinct...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: On Guard | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...have ever seen," said a 1908 visitor to the Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre, where Picasso worked and lived with his mistress-model Fernande Olivier. Indeed, Picasso's ramshackle tenement had no gas or electricity and only one water tap and a rudimentary toilet. But the studio was an often riotous gathering place for "la bande a Picasso," a self-dubbed group of poets--including Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob--attracted to the Spanish artist's creative orbit. Picasso showed these friends his paintings. One--a large work that absorbed him for six months--elicited only embarrassed silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: MAKING A MASTERPIECE | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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