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Intellectually speaking, G.B.S. was a great pass receiver. When astrodomed quarterbacks like Ibsen, Nietzsche, Darwin and Marx rifled ideas through the air, Shaw would snatch them and race down the field for dramatic touchdowns, spouting aphorisms and paradoxes as he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Girl Gets Boy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Revlon does stumble, plenty of competitors are waiting to snatch away its customers. Estée Lauder, a family-owned company that stresses a theme of understated elegance in its promotions, concentrates entirely on prestige stores and outsells Revlon in them 3 to 1. In the popular-priced field, Avon still holds a lead, though Revlon has been catching up. In the rush to sign up big-name clothes designers to put their names on perfumes, other firms have been quite as aggressive as Revlon. Revlon bagged Bill Blass, but Norton Simon Inc., parent company of Max Factor, got Halston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmetics: Kiss and Sell | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...they approached the end, it appeared as if the Crimson had come back to snatch the victory--Harvard was sitting 3,5,7,22,28--when McNulty could not continue the race...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Harriers Upset at Heptagonals | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...passing of Pope John Paul I [Oct. 9] was a terrible shock. Many people are going to wonder how God could snatch him away before his time. But in the long run, I believe he did what he was raised up to do and did it well. He showed us what the esse of the papal office is and, underneath, has always been: a simple, loving pastor rather than a crowned autocrat. His example was the vital thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1978 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...York Yankees stepping off a plane after their 10-4 defeat by Kansas City in the second game of the American League pennant playoffs. Newspaper-starved New Yorkers, who had subsisted on a diet of generally skimpy interim strike papers, crowded around subway kiosks and street-corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus Day advertising, an eight-page news review of the 56 "lost" days and the same somewhat tacky mix of gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Separate Peace for Murdoch | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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