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...France. Each is on a second honeymoon with a fail-safe second mate. Amanda has chosen conventional, humdrum Victor (John Cullum), and Elyot has chosen humdrum, conventional Sibyl (Kathryn Walker). But Amanda and Elyot are blithe spirits: witty, sophisticated, selfish, mercurial. They skip off to Paris, make love again, tiff tempestuously again and, when discovered by the appalled Victor and Sibyl, steal off together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: King Midas Calls the Tune | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...another girl and pulled at hers." Among her other dispatches from the isle of Mustique: the prince running around in the buff and attempting to jam a live lobster down the bathing suit of a young lady. Prince Charles, 33, meanwhile, is plagued by rumors about a "royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently talking to loose-lipped servants, headlined the news that following two weeks of sodden weather at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Diana was "bored to tears" and insisted that Charles return with her to London. In addition, the racy British tabloid the Sun, citing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1982 | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

This outside scrutiny often transforms complex problems into simple, seething controversy--good copy, as it's known in the business. But the media spotlight also gives Harvard a chance to do a little public relations for itself, and in a recent tiff over a Black students' guide to colleges, University Hall wasted just such an opportunity...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Harvard Image | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...championship singles, former Harvard oarsman Tiff Wood '75 nipped former Yale oarsman John Bigelow. Wood, seeded first, finished with an unofficial time of 18:15.1; Bigelow, seeded 12th, finished unofficially...

Author: By George P. Bayliss, | Title: Computer Fouls 'Head' Times | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...Bobby Knight, a title-and an off-court tiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Raging Bull of Basketball | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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