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...bottle smashes in the middle of the street in front of a dozen Jocks leaning against parked cars. Because it is completely dark and Carmen is a skyscraper, no one saw it coming. Three water bombs suddenly splat in front of them. More shouting and Beta huddles on retaliation. A squad car pulls in front of Beta, talks to a Jock who leans in the window, and leaves. A bottle shatters among a half dozen Beta people. A lot of Jocks immediately attack Carmen, running across the street and scaling a 16-foot gate. A bottle brushes through a tree...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Struck | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...week's end, Saigon was still a city shuddering with the roar of bombs and the splat of bullets. After five days of fighting, the stubborn attackers of Tan Son Nhut airstrip were still entrenched near the field as F-100 jets, Skyraiders and helicopters blasted at their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

Yesterday, I was strolling along the hall adjacent to the offices of the Mathematics Department when--splat! --a secretary ran headlong into me. "I'm sorry," she yelled from the end of the hall, "another phone call for Professor Tate. But I guess he isn't in his office after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GEE WHIZ, MA'AM" | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) of the Sureté. Fresh from his daring exploits in The Pink Panther, the inspector is a model of sangfroid. Beneath the vigorous mustache, the lips are ironical; beneath the snap-brim felt, the darting eyes see everything-well, everything except the goldfish pond. Splat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sellers of the Surete | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...almost always in a "delicate condition,'' and when he is in a delicate condition he is apt to do any tomfool thing that happens to cross his mind. One morning, sick of looking at a neighbor's purple house, Papa grabs a ladder and-splat! the neighbor's house is painted white. One afternoon, annoyed when a drugstore proprietor bullies the errand boy, Papa yanks out his checkbook, buys the store, makes the errand boy the boss and the boss the errand boy. And one fine day, when his daughter falls in love with a circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinemama's Papa | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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