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...last dance is Ro Bam Kak Se Ko, the rice cultivation dance, presented in five parts. The first is the planting of seeds. The second is a dance of three scarecrows (the little ones in the audience howl at the masks). The third part is the cutting of the rice, and fourth is the tying. Finally comes the celebration of the harvest. The children prance under a full moon. Over the loudspeaker an announcer explains: it was a good year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Embracing the Executioner | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...supporting cast. Sampson, you will remeber, is the 7-ft. 4-in center that NBC commentator Al McGuire will tell you 10 or 20 times a game is the "Player of the Century." Unfortunately for Cavalier Coach Terry Holland, the loss of Jeff Lamp and Lee Raker ro graduation means that opposing teams will be able to put a lot more pressure on Sampson. No matter haw good he really is, the big guy won't be able to do wonders when he is triple-teamed around the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roundball Roundup | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

Calvo-Sotelo discounted the prospects of a second attempt to seize power. But right-wing demonstrators were marching through Madrid loudly chanting the name of their latest hero: "Te-je-ro! Te-je-ro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: New Terrorism | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...must be true scientists, responsible to the public health as well as to the private muse. The country has grown wary of innovation, of simply doing things because they are possible. Indeed, some people will regard the good ship Columbia with squinting eyes, and long for the simplicity and ro mance of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Shuttle Columbia: Aiming High in '81 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...like radio: it allows the imagination to rove like a child in a flower field, especially when an office romance is involved, and the imagination may cavort among infinite possibilities of after-hour adventures behind the desk-legs sprawled wildly among the Eberhard Fabers; Muzak stuck on Boléro. When the candid spoilsport steps forward to tell it like it actually was, the imagination's freedom is curtailed. The audience grows vengeful. Carnage ensues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Letting Bad Enough Alone | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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