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Outside the dining room, dinner guests had the opportunity to see the King's recent gifts to the University of two Nepalese religious artifacts. One is a model of a Hindu temple and the other is a model of a Buddhist Stupe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King of Nepal Visits Harvard, Dines With Bok, Gives Shrines | 12/13/1983 | See Source »

...bees. Naturally, these two crippled creatures fall in love. Anna confesses her past. Since Mat is a pre-ecumenical Roman Catholic, he is appalled that he has fallen for an unclean woman. But she tells him that true love has washed away her sins and the pure and simple stupe embraces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Liv in Limbo | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

When Woody Allen takes a brave, unhesitating step forward, it is only to tumble through one of life's trap doors. He is a clown who pummels himself with his own pig bladder, an incarnation of the schlemiel, a born super-stupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: This Gub For Hire | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Biggest Ever. He did not, it seems, devote all his hours to metallurgy. Last week agents of the Brigade des Stupe-fiants-France's counterpart of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau-showed up at Desist's 14-room home at Saint-Jean-leBlanc and arrested him in connection with smuggling 209 Ibs. of pure heroin into the U.S. The narcotics, worth $2,800,000 wholesale and as much as $100 million retail (after cutting and diluting), had been found in a shack at a Columbus, Ga., trailer court. It was the biggest single haul of heroin ever captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Stupefying Sam | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...with a request for his last two years' reading, by title and author. Poor Commander Anderson could only fumble up the title of one book, no author. Dispiritedly, he mailed in his reading list after he got home, just so Rickover would not think him "a total stupe." The list of 24 books won Rickover's respect and helped Anderson join NRB as a potential atomic sub commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polar Saga | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

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