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...secured the services of some 200 "legitimate" actors, stage-directors, dialog writers and dramatists, singers, dancers and musical comedy producers and composers, it was also felt that the entire theatrical world was about to undertake a Hollywood migration. Given tongue, the cinema appeared also to have been given teeth. It had seemingly cast itself for the role of the Wolf, with the silent cinema as the Old Grandmother and the speaking stage as Little Red Riding Hood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident, but Jackie didn't think so. Neither did a lot of others who saw the play. Jackie set his teeth and said nothing. He didn't dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1939-1948: WAR | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...people who run the promotion, it the international Hooch situation is even weirder. At a British pub in Moscow, the promoters once brought in a lemon-shaped kiddie pool for a "bobbing for Hooches" event, in which the contestants had to pick a bottle off the bottom with their teeth. One man, after sticking his face in the water, somehow undid the cap and drank the entire bottle under water. At another promotion, Tatyana, one of the "Hooch Girls," saw someone swallow a lemon whole in a lemon-eating contest, "in one second, I swear," she says...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Bottoms Up! | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

GRIT YOUR TEETH Dental plaque, believe it or not, may be linked to heart disease. How? Animals injected with a bacterium found in plaque develop blood clots--a major cause of heart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Empty stores with dark interiors flank the sidewalks of Central Square like missing teeth. Banners announce the relocation of stores that have proudly stood at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Magazine Street for decades...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Central Square in Transition | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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