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...Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Exit Laughing | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...human ailments, none is more common or causes more consternation than the headache. An anonymous Sumerian poet wrote about his blinding pain 3,000 years before Christ. England's "Bloody Mary" Tudor went to her coronation with a splitter. Ulysses S. Grant suffered so severely that he took to his bed on the eve of Appomattox, only to have his pain vanish when he received word that Robert E. Lee was ready to discuss surrender. Thomas Jefferson, who suffered from severe periodic headaches, tried philosophically to ignore them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aid for Aching Heads | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Era of Many Romes | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...tung has not been content to preach heresy. In the past six months he has aimed a rising torrent of abuse at the anointed heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Goulash, Mr. Mao? Revolution, Mr. K | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

With about seven minutes to go, Pete Kelley entered the fray for the Crimson with a devasting effect. Seconds after checking in he hit a set shot from 20 feet out. This was followed with another net-splitter, even more beautiful, from a greater distance...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Basketball Defeats M.I.T. | 12/18/1961 | See Source »

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