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...mild-mannered zookeeper by day and a would-be composer by night. His wife Bananas (Beth Turner) is just that--bananas. They have a son. Ronnie (Peter Pappas), a resentful youth who harbors homicidal tendencies. As if his family wasn't outlandish enough, Artie also has a girlfriend, six-foot tall Bunny Lingus (Susan Trachta...

Author: By Lois Leveen, | Title: Sleek House | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

Serban led a six-week workshop in which students worked with six-foot bamboo poles. The poles served as extensions of self, with students learning new ways to move with the poles, as well as ways to switch them with partners. The class was "an exercise in concentration and awareness," according to Lodge. "Serban was trying to get us in touch with our instrument. I really learned a lot about myself in that class," he says...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: Teaching the ART of Acting | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

Clemson is the only town in the United Stateswhere the site of a six-foot tiger on the loosedoesn't shock anyone. And 400-pound men in orangeoveralls don't even elicit a second glance...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paw-Mania | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Neglecting to win only one game in 29, Tarkanian is still deliberating over "whether we're really a great team" or just quite a good one "that plays awfully hard." Six-Foot Guard Mark Wade, a selfless passer unnoticed at his first stop, Oklahoma, operates the offense. An outside shooter named Gerald Paddio has come along to encourage opponents to emulate Tarkanian's bedrock man-to-man defense. "The only ones crying about the ((new three-point)) 19- ft. rule are the coaches who like to play zone. If anything's hurting college basketball, it's zone defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making Its Points, the Hard Way | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Soviet tanks pulled stranded motorists out of six-foot snowdrifts along the Vienna-Budapest highway. Daredevil Parisians skied down the snow-blanketed steps of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur Basilica. Big Ben's famous chime was reduced to a dull thud as its bell hammer froze. Packs of hungry wolves emerged from the mountains to roam through isolated Czechoslovak villages in search of food. Across Europe last week, wind-whipped masses of frigid Siberian air, often accompanied by heavy snowstorms, sent thermometers plunging to some of the lowest levels of the past quarter of a century, paralyzing transportation, closing schools, businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Waiting Out the Big Chill | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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