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...Sure enough, the Pistols' American debut was a tame, almost respectable happening. Johnny did not throw empty beer bottles at the audience. All he did was blow his nose a lot. Guitarist Steve Jones did not vomit, though in the past he has proved he has the stomach for it. Nor did Bassist Sid Vicious sputter forth more than a few four-letter words. Sid did manage to draw cheers when he removed his shirt and revealed the torso of a 90-lb. weakling. Both

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...most unsophisticated Gary Grant in 20 years, but I'm going to get there." Beyond that lies a still wilder dream. "I want to lead a quiet, pseudointellectual life and go out and direct a picture two times a year. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...coach, and cause célebre of the Union uproar, is Ned Harkness, a tense, passionate competitor who eats poached eggs to soothe a nervous stomach and refers to hockey pucks as "black vitamins." A leg wound as an RCAF bombardier in World War II cut him off from playing, but at 56, he is legendary in hockey for building championship teams practically from scratch. He was doing just that for Union when he quit, and he did it twice before-first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then for Cornell. After his Cornell team won all 29 of its games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Union All But Sundered? | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Sadat begins to tire noticeably, aides say, late in the afternoon. He has his one big meal of the day, in the American style, between six and seven o'clock: because of his tender stomach, it is normally a dish of simple, boiled food-this time macaroni imported from Italy and rice. Every evening without fail, Sadat schedules two movies, mostly American westerns; he watches them, usually alone, in his pajamas. He leads an ungaudy life, really, but Sadat's comfortable residences and stylish clothes-as well as his glamorous wife-have drawn disapproving mutters from the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Actor with a Will of Iron | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...user in California walked into a house that he had picked at random, killed a baby and stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach. Under influence of the drug, a man in San Jose, Calif., tore out both his eyes with his bare hands. In the Chicago area, more than a dozen cases of drownings have been attributed to PCP use: victims lose a sense of direction and space and cannot fight their way out of the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: PCP: A Terror Of a Drug | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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