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...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions of Punjab | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...hair uncut, Chris began preparing for the role of Jake Livingston. "I had two weeks to get ready. Monday through Friday. I rode the motorcycle and I played Lacrosse on weekends. It's a rough game." But the schedule still afforded him more time than his stage work. "I did eight shows a week and sent to high school kind of not much time for anything else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 10/31/1984 | See Source »

...series of circumstances and coincidences which quickly becomes a caricature of itself," this day, the play remains of questionable authorship, though a number of well-turned and colorful phrases reveal the Elizabethan Bard. Indeed, language, infages, themes and parallels occasionally redeem the play, but mostly it just sloughs along. Uncut, the three-and-a-half-hour romance is an ambitious undertaking--just to watch...

Author: By Webster A. Stone, | Title: Beyond Interpretation | 10/21/1983 | See Source »

...progress. As the crowds streamed past the armored glass windows of Bonds jewelers' as yet unopened store, the staff inside was being held at gunpoint by five men, three disguised in monkey masks. After forcing the employees to open the vault, the robbers rifled trays of uncut gems and antique Indian jewelry, strewing less valuable items on the floor. Thirty minutes later they escaped with a haul valued at $15.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Stop and Think | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...landmark Houston production rightly restored both the cuts and the recitative, or sung dialogue, that Gershwin originally wrote. The latest incarnation, which opened last week in New York City's cavernous Radio City Music Hall, is an even grander version of the Houston Grand Opera staging: almost uncut, spectacularly designed and reasonably well sung by a large, rotating cast of principals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It Ain't Necessarily So | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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