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Britons were for once uniformly outraged. Thundered the Times indignantly: "So much for the guards at Buckingham Palace. The ceremony of changing the Guard will never seem quite the same again ... All that array of scarlet tunics, burnished brass and polished leather, and still an intruder could stroll into the palace and up to the Queen's bedroom without being detected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: God Save the Queen, Fast | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...teen-age lover of Joan Crawford. Some of this brings back memories of Hedy Lamarr's 1966 autobiography, Ecstasy and Me: My Life As a Woman, which wound up telling so much that the "author" denounced it as "obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...began in a morning of pomp and smiles, not just another page in Vatican travelogues but an undeniably special moment in history. Winding through London's Westminster Cathedral came a procession of robes crimson and scarlet, gold-embroidered, black and white, with plumed hats and swords of the old English orders strutting into this unexpected tapestry of medieval drama. At the heart of the panoply, and at the heart of the substance of the opening of this six-day event, was the red-robed figure of John Paul II, the Pope of love, controversy and ecumenical vision. Sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope on British Soil | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...athletics In high school an athletics image was worth striving for, but those who come to Yale as athletics find the academic welcome not always warm "In one of the funnier passages n Book. Kresling sees two eminents academic looking upperclassmen on the way to new Haven Imagining a scarlet football emblazoned on my chest. I reached into my pocket for my glasses Comforted by the impressive thickness of my own lenses. I ostentatiously uncovered my course catalog and flipped through the pages...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Trying Harder | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

There were no such mishaps. Flanked by royal guards dressed in scarlet, black and turquoise uniforms with plumed helmets, King Bhumibol stepped out of his pale yellow Rolls-Royce and boarded the Suphannahongse (Golden Swan), a 15-ton, 148-ft. vessel with a fierce, swanlike prow. Propelled by 54 crimson-clad rowers, the barge glided down the river like a giant mythological bird. As gold-encrusted conch shells and silver trumpets heralded the royal procession, several hundred thousand Thais gathered along the riverbank to catch a glimpse of their King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Royalty Afloat | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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